CG 47
CG 47
African Chess. A complete game in all respects. Created by Nigerian-born John C. Emejom. The game is an adaptation of the most popular parlour-game in West Africa known amongst the Akans of Ghana as Oware. This game has been best described by the Evening News of Ghana as the “African Personality No. 2”.
Price: $700.00
CG 46
1952 Belgian chromo album of naval ships, tanks and automobiles. Complete with all 144 chromos.
Price: $250.00
CG 45
Il Giro d’Italia di Niguardina e Scalfarotto e il Concorso Santagostino. It is a fascist period 1920’s game of the competition of two boys, Niguardina and Scalfarotto in a Santagostino competition. Rare.
Price: $400.00
CG 43Complete set of the 1962 Mars Attacks cards, produced in the UK. Extremely rare. B
Price: $3000.00
Note from Wikipedia: Mars Attacks is a science fiction-themed trading card series released in 1962 by Topps. The cards feature artwork by science fiction artists Wally Wood and Norman Saunders. The cards form a story arc, which tells of the invasion of Earth by cruel, hideous Martians under the command of a corrupt Martian government who conceal the fact from the Martian populace that Mars is doomed to explode and, therefore, proposes colonization of Earth to turn it into their new homeworld. The cards depict futuristic battle scenes and bizarre methods of Martian attack, torture and slaughter of humans, as well as various Earth nations being attacked. The story concludes with an expeditionary force of humans volunteering to embark on a counterattack on Mars, in which the Earth force attacks the Martians in their manner (bayoneting and bullets). This necessitates the Martians that are still on Mars to defend their homeworld. The Earth attack forces, after destroying the Martian cities and killing the Martians, depart just before Mars is destroyed in the predicted cataclysm, thus ensuring the peace and safety of Earth as the Martian race is seemingly doomed to extinction.
Scholar Nathan Brownstone noted that "The Mars Attacks cards achieved their popularity at the very time when the Cuban Missile Crisis captured the headlines, the moment when Cold War came closest to become radioactively hot. That was when a brutal zero-sum game scenario - for Humanity to survive the Martians must die - established a solid niche in Americana popular culture".
The cards proved popular with children, but depictions of explicit gore and implied sexual content caused an outcry, leading the company to halt production. The cards have since become collectors' items, with certain cards commanding over $3,500 at auction.
In the 1980s, Topps began developing merchandise based on the Mars Attacks storyline, including mini-comic books and card reprints.[5] An expanded set of 100 cards called Mars Attacks Archives was issued in 1994 by Topps and spawned a second round of merchandising. Director Tim Burton released a feature film called Mars Attacks! in 1996 based on the series, spawning a third round of merchandising, including an intercompany crossover with the Image Universe, titled Mars Attacks Image and published by Image Comics. In 2012, Topps released a 50th anniversary expanded set of 75 cards called Mars Attacks Heritage, leading to a fourth round of merchandising that continued into 2017 with the release of an official sequel series, Mars Attacks: The Revenge!
CG 42
Italian childrens card game Dono de Risorgimento. It came out in 1921 for the 50th anniversary of the unification of Italy. It show Italian heroes throughout the ages.B
Price: $300.00
CG 41
Rare fascist childrens book Cuccu…. By Librini del Cuccu. B
Price: $400.00
CG 36
19th century lotto game and historical quotes. set of 14 plates (out of 16) each decorated with a colored lithograph and completed by numbered tokens with quotations. B
Price: $800.00
CG 34
Incomplete 1860 Italian card game, with questions and answers on reverse. A revealing indication of social norms at the time. 11 cards. B
Price: $200.00
CG 33
Complete set of 10 early 20th century French postcards of children getting married. B
Price: $200.00
WW 501Propaganda leaflet against Jean Zay, former Minister of National Education and Fine Arts. A press campaign, organised by Philippe Henriot, the minister of information in the Vichy government, called for his execution for being "Jewish, freemason and member of the Radical Party", and pointing to his anti-war poem of March 1924, Le Drapeau (The Flag), as evidence of his lack of patriotism. The leaflet shows a humiliating photo of Zay and the text of his poem Le Drapeau on the reverse. AH
Price: $120.00
Note from Wikipedia: In May 1932, Jean Zay (1904-1944) was elected to the French parliament as député to represent Loiret, for the Radical Socialist Party. He defeated the incumbent representative of the Popular Democratic Party, Maurice Berger. He became one of the Jeunes Turcs (Young Turks) who wanted to renew the Radical Party, and was instrumental in the party joining the Popular Front in 1935. After the 1936 election, he was the Minister of National Education and Fine Arts from June 1936. While serving in his position, he extended the school leaving age and introduced a common curriculum in elementary schools. He was a freemason and descended from a Jewish family in Metz.
He resigned as minister in 1939 to join the French Army on the outbreak of the Second World War, serving as a second lieutenant attached to the headquarters of the Fourth Army. He remained a député until 1942, and he was given leave to attend the last session of the French Parliament, held in Bordeaux in June 1940. After the invasion of France by Nazi Germany in 1940, he was one of the passengers aboard the vessel Le Massilia that left from Bordeaux bound for Casablanca on 21 June 1940, with the intention of forming a resistance government in North Africa. He was arrested in August 1940, for desertion, and returned to France where he was held at the military prison in Clermont-Ferrand. He was convicted of desertion by a military tribunal in October 1940, and sentenced to loss of military rank and deportation for life. Held in Marseille, his sentence was commuted to one of internment in France, and he was held in the prison in Riom, sharing a cell with Rabbi Edward Gourévitch. He was allowed to communicate with friends and family, and did not attempt to escape. He was removed from the prison by three miliciens on 20 June 1944, purportedly so he could be transferred to Melun. They murdered him in a wood near an abandoned quarry, at a place called Les Malavaux in the faille du Puits du diable, at Molles in Allier.
The disparaging photo is part of a larger photo showing Zey while climbing the summit of Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, to open a new overnight shelter on August 21, 1938. One hour from the summit, Zey and his friends slept overnight at the Alpine Club, just one hour climb from the summit. Without knowing this fact, the portion of the photo used by the Vichy government makes Zey look like an idiot, which was the goal of the government.