Collection Highlights
WILD STYLE: TRACY 168
1992
2003.38.6
Black marker and felt tip pen on heavy paper with glue residue from a bound border at left
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Luce Center
The Fortune Teller
Title
The Fortune Teller
Object name
Table game
Date
1905
Medium
Cardboard, paper, metal
Dimensions
box: 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. ( 1.9 x 19 x 24.1 cm )
Description
"The Fortune Teller" table game with a chromolithographed image of a female gypsy fortune teller holding a metal rod on an easel with a spinning disk behind with three lithographed rings of playing cards; paper instruction and explanation booklet in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with the same gypsy fortune teller as on the easel; box cover inscribed, "THE/ Fortune/ Teller/ A/ NOVEL/ AND/ Exciting/ GAME/ MILTON BRADLEY CO./ SPRINGFIELD, MASS/ 4303".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.306