Collection Highlights
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman
ca. 1700-1725
1952.80
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
The Comical Game of Who?
Title
The Comical Game of Who?
Object name
Card game
Date
ca. 1910
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
overall: 1 1/2 x 6 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.
Description
"The Comical Game of Who?" card game with 60 playing cards and an instruction booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover lithographed with a polychrome image of a man with a hooked nose and glasses standing in front of five people seated at a table; box cover inscribed, "THE/ COMICAL GAME/ OF/Who?"/ FOR ANY NUMBER/ OF PLAYERS/ 156/ "Who is the/ handsomest man here?"/ "I am!"/ PARKER/ BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."; 60 playing cards printed with comical questions and answers.
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.687
Marks
lithographed: "THE/ COMICAl GAME/ OF/Who?"/ FOR ANY NUMBER/ OF PLAYERS/ 156/ "Who is the/ hansomest man here?"/ "I am!"/ PARKER/ BROTHERS/ SALEM, MASS., U.S.A."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
