Listing # 43285
| Listing Format: | Auction |
| Current price : | €5,00 |
| # of bids: | 0 |
| Closes: | 42 Days, 21 Hours |
| Location: | Sweden |
| Starts: | 2024-06-01 01:00:00 |
| Ends: | 2024-06-10 19:00:00 |
| Seller: |
LSAK
(4971)
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| High Bidder(s): | -- |
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Eden Musee. Startling facts respecting the mystifying Chess Automaton Ajeeb.
Contemporary advertising card for the famous Chess Automaton Ajeeb. 12,5*8,5 cm. Illustration on front. Fact list printed verso.
Ajeeb was a chess-playing "automaton", created by Charles Hooper (a cabinet maker), first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868. A piece of faux mechanical technology (while presented as entirely automated, it in fact concealed a strong human chess player inside). The genius behind the device were players such as Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1898–1904), Albert Beauregard Hodges, Constant Ferdinand Burille,Charles Moehle, and Charles Francis Barker.
Ajeeb's name was derived from the Arabic word عجيب (ʿajīb) meaning "wonderful, marvelous."
Condition: VG for its age.
Seller (80). 2089b.
Payment Details: Banktransfer or Paypal + 5%
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