£180 - £360
Travel Poster Shin Aichi Japanese Table Game World Tour. Original antique children's table game issued as New Year Appendix to a Japanese daily newspaper Shin-Aichi. The game is structured as a trip around the world in a airplane. The design features an illustration of a plane flying above the mount Fuji in the centre of the poster, surrounded by various comic strip like pictures depicting the plane flying over and observing the scenes with theatre, zeppelin, palm trees, camels, penguins, soldiers, titled - Etiquette, Tennis, Science, Skiing, Wilderness, Projection, Aviation, Baseball, Breeding, Plants, Discovery, Desert, Bullfighting, Hero. Some of scenes include Hollywood with a cartoon of angry Charlie Chaplin and a Japanese pilot saluting Mussolini. Shin-Aichi was first published in 1888 (Meiji rule year 21) by Ukichi Oshima, it had grown to become the leading newspaper in Showa era, it merged with Nagoya Shimbun in 1942 to establish Chunichi Shimbun newspaper. Horizontal. Fair condition, folds, creasing, several tears in margins, staining, small paper losses on image. Country of issue: Japan, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 55x70, year of printing: 1930s.
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