[Centsprent/catchpenny print, antique game, gambling] Het Vermakelijk Harlekijnspel, published ca. 1900.

Name: [Centsprent/catchpenny print, antique game, gambling] Het Vermakelijk Harlekijnspel, published ca. 1900.
SKU: PR120751
Price: 40.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

A sort of goose game called ‘Het Vermakelijk Harlekijnspel’, or the The Entertaining Harlequin Game. A rectangular board game with compartments containing numbers on either sides of a standing Harlequin with a drum.

On a banderole on either sides of the Harlequin the rules of the game in Dutch.

“The Game of Seven is known under many different names, with different imagery to correspond. The Game of Harlequin, looks perfectly innocuous, though the game itself is not. Here, the special rules for the throws of two or twelve are not recognised and they are treated as ordinary numbers, so that there is no quick finish to the game. The throw of seven causes money to accumulate on the central figure of Harlequin, in the usual way, but the rules say that the game continues until every player except one is completely out of money, when the last man standing takes everything. A special rule says that when a player runs out of money, one last throw is allowed for free, after which the player must leave the game.” [from the website ilgiocodelloca.it]

On verso seller’s mark with address: ‘H. OORTHUIS LIEDERENHANDEL Korte Keizerstraat 12 I0 AMSTERDAM.’

SKU: PR120751

Chromolithography, total: 429 x 338 mm, horizontal folding crease at center, small tears on the margins, otherwise in fair condition. Not in Buijnsters 2005.

€ 48,40 (€ 40,00 ex. btw)

In stock