COBI Campagne d'Égypte Set 20092 (Damaged Box)

COBI's Campagne d'Égypte is a diorama built from 243 blocks, over 20 cm of Nile valley, with three figures and a horse: General Kléber, Lieutenant Bouchard and a Mamluk cavalryman, plus a printed model of the Rosetta Stone.

Condition

This set is sold at a reduced price because the outer box is damaged — it may have holes, creases or crushed corners. The contents are brand new, sealed and complete. If you are building the model rather than collecting sealed boxes, the only difference is the price.

The stone France found and lost

Bouchard was an engineer officer rebuilding a fort near Rosetta in July 1799 when his men turned up a slab carrying the same decree in three scripts. Because the Greek could be read, the other two could finally be cracked.

France never got to keep it. When the Army of the East surrendered in 1801 the British took the stone, and it has been in the British Museum ever since. But the French had already made impressions and casts and sent them home, and it was from those copies that Champollion worked out the hieroglyphic system in 1822. The expedition lost the object and kept the discovery.

Specifications

Pieces: 243 · Figures: 3 with one horse · Age: 6+
Model dimensions: 22 × 9.5 × 12 cm (8.7 × 3.7 × 4.7 in)
Condition: new and sealed, outer box damaged