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    "label": "The journey, or, cross roads to conqueror's castle",
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    "title": "The journey, or, cross roads to conqueror's castle",
    "description": "The game board is a map with roads, cross-roads and illustrations. Starting from the bottom of the board, players spin the disk and move their marker in the indicated direction and spaces. Player's lose or gain counters as they move along the roads to the castle. The first player to reach the castle wins.",
    "date": "[\"[ca. 1831–1836]\"]",
    "year": 1831,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:0r96fk78x",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_014373",
    "creators": [
        "Spooner, William, active 1831-1854"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Board games--Great Britain--Specimens",
        "Picture puzzles--Juvenile literature"
    ],
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    "publisher": "W. Spooner, 259, Regent Street"
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    "extent": "1 game : color illustrations ; 56 x 43 cm, folded in cover 15 x 15 cm",
    "notes": [
        "Title from game; imprint from cover.",
        "Probable date range from the years in which publisher was at 259 Regent Street; Cf. Hannas, Linda. The English jigsaw puzzle. London, 1972, p. 152.",
        "Boston Public Library copy imperfect: board only. Lacking spinner, rules sheet, markers and counters."
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