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Zig-Zag Fold-Ins
 
This page attempts to record what is known about the origin and history of Zig-Zag Fold-Ins, pictures which can be folded in a zigzag fashion to reveal a second image. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

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This Zig-Zag Fold-In dates to around 1814 and is propaganda on behalf of Louis XVIII of France. (Information from Juan Gimeno)

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This Zig-Zag Fold-In from 1814 headed 'We Will Be Victorious' shows the leaders of France, England, Belgium, Japan, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro and collapses to portraits of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austro-Hungary and William 2 of Germany.

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