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Cipher Machine
16th French cipher machine in the shape of a book with the coat of arms of Henri II on the cover
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Cigar Boxes Exhibition
This is a website describing the exhibition put on by the National Cigar Museum about cigar boxes shaped like books. We wanted to include this as its…
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Lexicon; Waddington's Lexicon. The Game of Skill
Design: card printed on one side in black to show a large letter of the alphabet in the centre, repeated in opposite corners, and with a score number…
Folding games board
Wood chessboard veneered with ivory, engraved and highlighted with lac and partly veneereed with tortoiseshell. The edges of the hinged lid and box…
Biscuit Tin
Biscuit tin made of tinplate, off set litho printed, made to simulate eight books with simulated tooled leather bindings and marbled end papers, bound…