GRAND JEU DE LA PUCE

Great game of tiddlywinks

N. K. Atlas

1513 (on rules)

N.K. ATLAS - PARIS

PARADIS
R P
4 3 2
REPOSOIR
ENFER
3
2
1
JEU LA PUCE

N. K. ATLAS - PARIS

Has "N K ATLAS - PARIS" marking but no "G B & CIE" logo; center background is pinkish tan

clown, handstand, flower, paradise, hell

sheet (1 side)

"N.-K. PARIS", "GRAND JEU DE LA PUCE", "REGLE DU JEU" "No. 1513"

cardboard box

11 ¼ inches wide — 6 ⅜ inches high — 1 ¾ inches deep

70.5 cm wide — 20 cm high — 8.3 cm deep

Label with white outer border. "GRAND JEU" at top center with black outline, alternatingly red and gray. "DE LA" below in black. "PUCE" below with the loop in "P" over the left vertical of the "U", in red, gray, gray, then red. Title is on offwhite area shaped somewhat like an hourglass. At bottom is a green surface with the target from the box in white with black markings (such as PARADIS, REPOSOIR, ENFER, and numbers). Clown at left and clown at right are standing on their hands. One at left is shooting a wink with a square shooter. One at right is expelling a wink from his mouth. Another clown is at center, crouching. Background behind clowns is pink.

Left and right sides of box top have a green and red pattern with yellow and red flowers and black along the green shapes. Lower right flower has a curl in its stem as does the left lower flower.

"N. K. ATLAS" appeared below the lower right flower, above "PARIS", in black letters.

Repeating patten in dull thin blue of a flower inside a vertical oval with a circumference of dashes, inside a diagonal grid with horizontal connectors appearing as the infinity sign.

Repeating patten in dull thin blue of a flower inside a vertical oval with a circumference of dashes, inside a diagonal grid with horizontal connectors appearing as the infinity sign.

Rick Tucker