Beschreibung:

Belarungs-Spiel, Jeu de Siege, The Game of Siege, circa 1850s, hand-coloured lithographed folding board, depicting a fortress and four corner vignettes of Napoleonic soldiers, spotted, 32.5 x 31cm (12.75 x 12.25ins), twenty-one (of 24) turned bone and two black wooden playing pieces, contained in original cardboard box, rubbed and slightly worn, pull-off lid with hand-coloured lithographed label and lacking some of embossed border, together with a folding box board for another version of the game (worn, and without any components), plus The New Round Game of the Moorish Fort, Played upon an ordinary Table, circa 1860s, boxed game, comprising a painted red and gold cast metal fort, six green and six white marbles (of 14?), a wooden cue and rest (one cue lacking and only part of its rest present), two metal flags, and two wooden gauges, instruction booklet not present, contained in original wooden box with compartments, joints a little loose, sliding lid with printed paper label (rubbed and stained), 14 x 31 x 13.5cm (5.l5 x 12.25 x 5.25ins), plus Captain Lamorock Flower's Military Blocks Illustrative of the Field Exercise & Evolutions of Infantry. The Battalion Blocks Re-Arranged on a New Principle (Registered), by Captain William D. Malton, W. Mitchell & Co., 1871, wooden board with stands (one split in two), and numerous painted wooden blocks of various shapes, each with a metal pin, contained in original wooden box, printed green title label on hinged lid, and remains of printed key on underside of lid, 6.5 x 26.5 x 14.5cm (2.5 x 10.5 x 5.75ins) (3)