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  German geographical game - possibly pre-ww1 - 1910 The original box cover bears the title  "Städte des deutschen Reiches “ and measures 315 x 290 x 40 mm in fairly good to good condition: this is the Scholz company game Nr. 430.  Ein geographisches Lottospiel mit Bildern von Emil Heinsdorff. Grosse Ausgabe.  Verlag von Jos. Scholz, Mainz.   There has been one clumsy repair to the box lid, but it still baers the maker´s original label on one side. The box contains six map cards of Europe each measuring 275 x 240 mm (with the map only 80 x 115 mm in centre) and having attractive pictures of 10 important cities, each named at the bottom of the image. For each city illustration an octagonal centre portion must be extracted as a playing counter. Each of these counters when removed shows the name of the city and is numbered (e.g. 33 Karlsruhe, 35 Königsberg - now Kaliningrad) and the counter is likewise numbered but also has a question: 33 Wie heisst die Haupstadt von Baden? (What is