A very rare ‘The Newly Invented Musical Game’ by Ann Young of Edinburgh, circa 1800, a mahogany veneered box with hinged lid opening to reveal two printed paper covered playing surfaces with peg holes, a lift of lid for cards and showing maker’s label, a drawer to each side housing the ivory, bone and rosewood playing pieces, which include musical dice, peg markers in two sizes and counters —17 ½in. (44.5cm.) length of box (some pieces and cards missing, a tiny bit of loss to playing surfaced and exterior of box some wear) - ‘Dedicated by Permission to Her Royal Highness, The Princess Charlotte of Wales’, patented in 1801, manufactured and sold by Muir, Wood & Co., No.7 Leith Street, Edinburgh; the game invented by Ann, who lived in St James Square at the opposite end of George Street to Charlotte Square, was patented in the capital. It is very unusual to have a game or anything designed by a woman, and Ann was the only one to receive a patent that year and one of only forty women to receive a patent in a 200-year period from 1617 to 1816. This lot is sold with Ivory Declaration Number: 1LGQF2YP