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Game Board Celebrating the Round The World Flight of the LZ 1127 Graf Zeppelin
Richly embellished double sided folded sugoroku or Japanese board game on paper, player's paper pieces on lower margin,
This double sided sugoroku was issued as a supplement to Nihon Shōnen 日本少年 (Vol.25, No.1) on New Year's Day 1930. Published to commemorate the visit to Tokyo in 1929 of the LZ 1127 Graf Zeppelin while on its famous round the world trip known as Weltrundfahrt 1929 or Graf's "Round-the-World" flight in August 1929 officially began and ended at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.
This game demonstrates how much interest there was in Graf's "Round-the-World". Understandably there was a great deal of interest in America, as Randolph Hearst was the commercial backer and one of the Zeppelin's nine passengers, but clearly each country made this major event their own. Although the flight began and ended in New Jersey (as Hearst was keen to gain maximum publicity in the United States) this game uses Tokyo as the beginning and end. Other places visited include (1) Manchuria, (2) Siberia, (6) Moscow, (8) North Pole, (9) Africa, (15) New York, (18) South Pole, and (19 )Hawaii.
On the reverse side of the sheet is another sugoroku with an athletics theme.
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