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Wallis's Locomotive Game of Railroad Adventures.

WALLIS, Edward
London,
Edward Wallis, 42 Skinner Street,
[c1840]
Engraving with aquatint, hand-coloured, dissected and mounted on linen.
580 by 600mm (22.75 by 23.5 inches).
20581

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A railway inspired version of the Game of the Goose where players progress along the spiral to the centre of the board; along the way players encounter hazards, bonuses, and penalties. These hazards include derailment, snow drifts, floods, and escaped pigs! If one can avoid these then the player will be whisked around the newly created railway network, taking in new stations such as Euston with its great arch, and Curzon Street in Birmingham. The winner is the first to arri...

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Whitehouse p.44.

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