The Royal Geographical Pastime or the Tour of Europe, bid to £3000 at Chiswick Auctions.
Bid to £3000 at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) on November 20 was a rare and much earlier game than the Forum examples covered above.
Published in 1768 by Thomas Jefferys, The Royal Geographical Pastime or the Tour of Europe features a dissected and folding map of Europe on which a route beginning in Dover and ending in London takes in 103 cities stretching from Iceland to Egypt.