Purchased at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the ‘Industrial Exhibition of All Nations’ jigsaw type game shown right sold for £1350 at Lawrences (22% buyer’s premium) on June 16.
Contained in the wooden box with its sliding, colour printed cover, it contains 60 wooden blocks that make up two different pictures, which also feature on two folding, linen-backed litho key prints.
In the same section of the Crewkerne sale, a set of 64 picture dominoes, of German manufacture and dated to c.1840, made £700.