Collection Highlights
Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati
ca. 1802
1972.12ab
Silk, gold, enamel
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Card game
Object name
Card game
Date
1884
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
box: 1 x 7 7/8 in. ( 2.5 x 20 cm )
Description
"Noddles Astray: Eight Merry Games" card games with 52 printed paper playing cards and an instruction booklet; cards printed in pairs with caricatures of heads and bodies such as "Venus Flytrap" and "Dutch Onion" printed on each; box with caricatures of a man and woman and the inscription, "NODDLES ASTRAY/ EIGHT MERRY GAMES/ COPYRIGHTED 1884 BY McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS. N. Y.".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.575
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "NODDLES ASTRAY/ EIGHT MERRY GAMES/ COPYRIGHTED 1884 BY McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS. N. Y."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
