Museum Collections
Luce Center
An Amusing Game of Horse Show
Title
An Amusing Game of Horse Show
Date
ca. 1890
Medium
Cardboard, paper, wood, metal
Dimensions
board: 18 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. ( 47 x 23.5 cm )
box: 1 3/4 x 19 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. ( 4.4 x 48.9 x 26 cm )
Description
"An Amusing Game of Horse Show" with a bi-fold paper covered cardboard gameboard, eight wooden playing pieces, a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow and eight square cardboard "medals" in a paper covered cardboard box; board chromolithographed with a checkerboard which is yellow and red in the center and blue and peach around the sides, corners with images of four horses; box cover chromolithographed with an image of a woman riding a bucking horse; box cover inscribed, "AN AMUSING GAME/ THE/ HORSE/ SHOW/ MANUFACTURED/ BY/ J. H. SINGER,/ NEW YORK, U.S.A."
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.375
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "AN AMUSING GAME/ THE/ HORSE/ SHOW/ MANUFACTURED/ BY/ J. H. SINGER,/ NEW YORK, U.S.A."
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.





