Comical Metamorphoses game, £900 at Mellors & Kirk.
Titled on the cover in German, French and English as Comical Metamorphoses, an early 19th century transformation game featured at Mellors & Kirk (24% buyer’s premium) in Nottingham as part of a January 17 sale.
As the accompanying composite illustration shows, it comprised brightly coloured and sectioned cards featuring heads, torsos and legs, each with a numbered label to reverse, all of which were contained in a varnished wooden box with a pictorial label to its sliding lid. Said to be in very good condition for its age, the set sold at £900.