GANSESPIEL WÜRFELSPIEL
Leonard Kahn, Germany, ca. 1910

 

 

 


 

This is a small booklet (15 x 19.5 cms) issued by Leonhard Kahn, a store in Frankfurt am Main, possibly as a gift to his customers. It features a double-page game of goose and four smaller roll-and-move games, one of which represents a cycling race.


As far as I know, the Kahn family was forced to sell in the time of the Third Reich. It is mentioned in Benno Nietzel's book "Handeln und Überleben: Jüdische Unternehmer aus Frankfurt am Main 1924 - 1964" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen : 2012). In Frankfurt's Jewish Museum website there is an image of a later promotional game by Leonhard Kahn.

 

 

 

The cycling game is featured on a single page. It measures thus just 19.5 x 15 cms, probably smaller that the size of the image on your screen (unless you are seeing this page on a mobile phone, of course)

 

 

 

By the looks of the riders and the pacing motorbikes, I would say this game was made before WW1.

 

 

 

     

 

The car depicted on the bottom left corner is also pre-WWI

 

 

 

 

The star of the booklet is this game of goose, which is printed with two colours (plus black) and is displayed over two pages .

 

 

Another pre-WWI car

 

 

Hunting-themed game of goose

 

"Bedouin" game

 

Ladders game.

 

 

Back of the booklet

 

 


 

Thanks Stephan for the tip on this one!


 

 

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