Collection Highlights
The Rapalje Children
1768
1946.201
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Lost Heir
Title
Lost Heir
Object name
Card game
Date
1875
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
Overall: 7/8 x 4 1/2 x 6 in. ( 2.2 x 11.4 x 15.2 cm )
Description
"Game of Lost Heir" with 32 cards representing the police forces of four cities and an instruction book in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover printed with a young boy carrying a kite; box inscribed, "LOST HEIR/ NOYES & SNOW./ WORCESTER. MASS./ SUCCESSORS TO/ WEST & LEE GAME CO./ ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS BY WEST & LEE GAME CO. 1875."
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.650
Marks
lithographed: box cover: "LOST HEIR/ NOYES & SNOW./ WORCESTER. MASS./ SUCCESSORS TO/ WEST & LEE GAME CO./ ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS BY WEST & LEE GAME CO. 1875."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
