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*Loysel's Patent Chivalric Game of Tournoy. A Combination of Chance and Skill, n.d., mid 19th c., comprising a silver plated miniature roulette wheel with hinged flaps engraved with the names of the pieces (the Queen, the Chevalier, the Connetable, the Herald, the Page, the Dwarf), an ivory ball, a scoreboard with two dials, eighteen porcelain playing disks with transfer-print allegorical drawings representing the six characters, plus folding playing board and 16 pp. instruction booklet, all contained in orig. fitted mahogany box, approx. 8 x 8 in (20 x 20 cm) when closed 'The Inventor has no thought of introducing the game of Tournoy either as a rival to, or an improvement on the noble game of Chess; but, merely as an agreeable mode of recreation of quite a different order'. (1)
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*Loysel's Patent Chivalric Game of Tournoy. A Combination of Chance and Skill, n.d., mid 19th c., comprising a silver plated miniature roulette wheel with hinged flaps engraved with the names of the pieces (the Queen, the Chevalier, the Connetable, the Herald, the Page, the Dwarf), an ivory ball, a scoreboard with two dials, eighteen porcelain playing disks with transfer-print allegorical drawings representing the six characters, plus folding playing board and 16 pp. instruction booklet, all contained in orig. fitted mahogany box, approx. 8 x 8 in (20 x 20 cm) when closed 'The Inventor has no thought of introducing the game of Tournoy either as a rival to, or an improvement on the noble game of Chess; but, merely as an agreeable mode of recreation of quite a different order'. (1)
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