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• Title:Belagerungs-Spiel = The game of siege = Jeu de siege.
  
• Publication:[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [mid-19th century?]
  
• Physical Description:1 game (1 gameboard, 24 game pieces) ; in box 18 x 18 x 4 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GV1312 .B453 1850 Flat A
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Notes:Title from publisher's original illustrated box.
  The game board and box top include illustrations of a fort siege (hand-colored lithographs).
  
• Summary:The game is a contest between 24 attackers (bases painted blue) and 2 defenders (bases painted red). Following rules of movement similar to those in the game of checkers, the attack attempts to win the game by placing its men on all nine of the fixed points within the fort.
  
• Variant and related titles:Game of siege
  Jeu de siege
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:War games--Specimens.
  Games--Germany--19th century.
  Amusements--Germany--19th century.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1850.
  
• Genre/Form:Board games.
  Games.
  Lithographs--Hand-colored--1850.