Roast goose and dumplings with a tiny baked apple and a green garnish.
Goose was Wednesday night!
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Lobster linguine!
Or maybe lobster!?
12.12.2025 21:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Wow! Queue the visions of shrimp-games to dance in my head...
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GAME OF THE GOOSE-BARON?
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12.12.2025 13:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Game of the Barone?
And ... It has ANOTHER game on the back!
Nova Gioco del Barone!?
12.12.2025 13:22 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Board game with a woodcut spiral full of treacherous geese.
GAME OF THE GOOSE!
When your goose is cooked, it's REALLY cooked. (Psst, don't land on the geese if you want to live!) 18th c. (?) impression of this famous Italian game.... #NewberryLibrary (Case Wing oversize ZC 1 .638)
December 12 (12/24)
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12.12.2025 12:02 — 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2
That's... not a stretch!
I'm also into regular Brechtian cabaret music... 😁
11.12.2025 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vaguely, but I've never seen it!
11.12.2025 17:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wall label.
More about this anonymous painting... At least we know (all three of) the sitters! Mathilde and Max Rath, born 1850 and 1852, respectively. This portait was painted around 1854, relatively quickly after the book came out in 1845!
11.12.2025 17:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Children in landscape reading Struwwelpeter!
Detail of book in child's lap.
Think Struwwelpeter never got his portrait painted?
Think again!
11.12.2025 16:56 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Struwwelpeter playing cards.
Struwwelpeter shampoo!
Tin figures of Struwwelpeter characters.
The case with Struwwelpeter souvenirs over time was particularly fabulous.
You can buy Struwwelpeter Gun, but not the more thematically relevant shampoo! And those tin painted figures! I would have instantly bought a bunch!
11.12.2025 15:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cloth book version from London of the English Struwwelpeter.
Really enjoyed seeing the c. 1905 fabric edition by Dean's Rag Books yesterday too...
11.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Shaped book of Italian Struwwelpeter in an exhibition case.
TIL that ...
Struwwelpeter, which is sometimes translated as Shockheaded Peter in English, has a very different title in Italian!
Piero PORCOSPINO
(Peter Porcupine!!)
11.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
TURNING HEADS
Advent Calendar!
11.12.2025 14:26 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Turning Heads?
Yesterday I was in Frankfurt, finally enjoying THE Struwwelpeter Museum, but I'm now in a different country entirely. Here's another hint, in the form of an old man rotating into a donkey from a 1557 Decameron!
#NewberryLibrary (Case Y 712 .B6871)
December 11 (11/12)
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11.12.2025 14:25 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Yeah, the German very man-splainingly notes that "two dice will be " enough" for the women"... 🙄
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Get your curiosity curation right here!
10.12.2025 20:34 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Titje page dated 1546, with LARGE Eagle and owner signature.
Front of lottery wheel of fortune.
Round diagram with alchemical engraving stuck in center.
Queen receiving book.
Finally, some interactive front matter! If you look closely, you'll see there's an alchemical engraving patching where the dial used to be! And that's Queen Anna bringing up the rear, although she may not have actually known about the book. But would she have played it if she had? 🤔
10.12.2025 19:42 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crowned woman receiving a book, woodcut.
YUP. Pretty sure the dedication to Anna was either looking for money or entirely fake, but here she is!
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Me as Struwwelpeter.
#StruwwelSelfie
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Is it today yet? Switching to European time is confusing! Here's my German Fortune Telling Book for the Advent Calendar!
10.12.2025 12:58 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Full page with dice options for men (3) and women (2).
This GERMAN book was printed in Strasbourg, though I'm not there today. I'm amused and appalled by this book, dedicated to the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, which tells your fortune by dice. Most pages lack gender specific outcomes, but here women get the last few rows... And two dice, not three!
10.12.2025 12:56 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
Mysterious black woodcut dice with white dots, with both three and two sets of dice each.
Roll the DICE!
And guess where in the world I am today?! This lottery book from 1546 might give you a clue...
#NewberryLibrary (Case folio BF1850 .P36 1546)
December 10 10/24
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10.12.2025 10:27 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1
Really? No love for the youth?
10.12.2025 00:06 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm pretty sure Savonarola pitched all sorts of game boards into the Bonfire of the Vanities in 1497... The Narrenschiff satires were coming from a different place though!
09.12.2025 22:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Children brandishing knives at each other over a game of cards... A blindfolded fool at right doesn't interrupt.
Kiddie Knife Fights!
Maybe these are in fact apprentices or other working youths, but they are certainly armed to the teeth!
09.12.2025 21:40 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Four Fools (male and female) at a card table with dice, coins, wine, footsie, and groping. A fifth fools cap is hanging on the wall... Yours?
Deal Me In!
Cards and dice are also a definite no-no, because they can lead to...
09.12.2025 17:34 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today's Prohibitive Gaming Advent Calendar!
09.12.2025 17:30 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Woodcut of fool holding backgammon board and throwing pots at (?) his family? They are also throwing them.
THE PERILS OF...BACKGAMMON?
Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools has it in for overzealous game playing, like the usually family-friendly game of backgammon! Are they having a pottery fight over the outcome? What else did he warn us about? 🤔
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 7776)
December 8 (8/24)
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09.12.2025 15:59 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 2
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