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These designs are said to have been sent from Nice by the principal of the Rothschild School. The basis of the construction of the buildings is The Playing Card Cube but the material used is advertising cards obtained from shops in Nice (which are of similar proportions to playing cards). The chimneys are simply paper cones.

The same information appears in 'Travaux Recreatifs Pour les Enfants de 4 a 10 Ans' by Marie Koenig, which was published by Librairie Hachette et Cie in Paris in 1898.

My grateful thanks for Michel Grand for drawing this article to my attention.

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