I have found the Jean Anatole Jost (1860-1926) catalogues very useful for my pinball ancestry research. According to Association Wellouëj (archive), Jost filed a patent for "le grimpeur au Mât de Cocagne" back in 1886. The current archives for patents don't seem to go back that far, but hopefully they will eventually get digitized.
In this post we are covering this across a few sections:
- Catalogues
- Factory Negatives
- Games that Jost created
- Games that Jost improved upon
- Game Photographs
- Patents
Catalogues
I have uploaded a number of Jost catalogues to the Internet Archive. Thank you to Patrick Carrière at Billards Anciens and James Masters at Masters Of Games for assistance.
J.A. Jost Catalogue 1890 - Manufacture De Jeux De Précision - Ancienne Maison Chevallier [PDF download] |
This next catalogue is INCOMPLETE. I believe it is from ~1922, as I think the "Catalogue No." generally aligns with the year of 1900.
Jeu De Precision - Jost & Cie Catalogue No 26 [PDF download] |
This next catalogue does not even mention Jost at all, but contains materials from their earlier catalogues. On the back page you can see the imprint "1073 - 25.9.28". My assumption is that second number is the catalogue date, September 25th, 1928.
1892 catalogue |
The 1902 catalogue cover says "Catalogue No 2", which leads me to believe that there is a strong correlation between the catalogue numbers and the year in the 1900s.
1902 catalogue |
1902 catalogue |