Collection Highlights
Wig curler
1760-1775
INV.5924.77
Clay
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American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
Fighting with the Boers
Title
Fighting with the Boers
Date
1902-1910
Medium
Cardboard, wood, metal
Dimensions
Overall: 3/4 x 8 7/8 x 15 in. ( 1.9 x 22.5 x 38.1 cm )
Description
Board game with board, box, fourteen wooden playing pieces, and one cardboard and metal spinner; board set into the bottom half of the box with multi-colored circles labeled "shoot" and retreat" arranged over a South African landscape; box cover has images of a Boer soldier on horseback, a medallion portrait of General Sir G.S. White and a portait of President Paul Kruger; box cover inscribed, "FIGHTING / with/ the/ BOERS/ PARKER BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS.,/ U. S. A.;" seven red wooden playing pieces and seven white wooden playing pieces.
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.453
Marks
printed: on the box cover: "FIGHTING/ with/ the/ BOERS/ GEN./ SIR G. S. WHITE./ PRESIDENT PAUL KRUGER/ PARKER/ BOTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., / U. S. A."
printed: on the interior of the cover: "Rules for Playing FIGHTING THE BOERS. A SIMPLE AND EXCITING GAME/ Each player's force consists of seven men./ Place the red men uopn the round dots lettered "British"..."
printed: on the board: "BOERS/ START HERE/ BRITISH/ START HERE/ SHOOT/ RETREAT"
printed: on the spinner: "1/ 4/ 2 /5 / 3/ 6/ PARKER BROS/ GAMES"
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
