Collection Highlights
Batter pitcher
1798
1937.587
Stoneware, cobalt oxide
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Pit: Exciting Fun for Everyone
Title
Pit: Exciting Fun for Everyone
Object name
Card game
Date
1919
Medium
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions
Overall: 1 x 5 3/8 x 4 in. ( 2.5 x 13.7 x 10.2 cm )
Description
"Pit: Exciting Fun for Everyone" card game with an instruction sheet and 65 playing cards with backs showing a large steamship, tugboat and a train at a wharf, faces show a trading pit and are printed with seven commodities and a bull and a bear in a paper covered cardboard box; box inscribed, "PIT/ TRADE MARK/ REGISTERED U.S. PATENT OFFICE/ AND IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES/ Exciting Fun for Everyone/ PARKER BROTHERS/ INCORPORATED/ SALEM, MASS., NEW YORK, LONDON".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.401
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "PIT/ TRADE MARK/ REGISTERED U.S. PATENT OFFICE/ AND IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES/ Exciting Fun for Everyone/ PARKER BROTHERS/ INCORPORATED/ SALEM, MASS., NEW YORK, LONDON"