Collection Highlights
Fire engine condenser case
1830-1840
1937.1631
Wood, paint, gilding
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
What Do You Buy?
Title
What Do You Buy?
Object name
Card game
Date
ca. 1885
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
box: 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. ( 1.9 x 10.8 x 13.7 cm )
Description
"Game of What Do You Buy?" card came with 48 polychrome playing cards and an instruction sheet in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover depicts a young girl in a white dress and hat with a basket of flowers hung over her back; box inscribed, "GAME OF/ WHAT DO/ YOU BUY?/ McLOUGHLIN BROS. NEW YORK".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.671
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF/ WHAT DO/ YOU BUY?/ McLOUGHLIN BROS. NEW YORK".
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
