Raynors HCA 2020-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2020
Children's Card Game, New York, Ives, Blakeslee & Williams Company , 1881. Three colored cards sets printed on thick cardboard. Each full card measures 7" x 9"; each individual section measures 3" x 9". Three cards in all, a total of 9 sections. Moderate wear and spotting, all with copyright of March 22, 1881, printed at bottom right corner [occasional loss of one or two numerals of the date]. Very Good. The cards, an early form of a type popular with children today, were patented by Walter Stranders of New York City on March 22, 1881, under Patent 239,281. Stranders sought to "produce new and improved game of cards for children, by which changes in figures of (truncated) . The characters are Peter Cooper, James Gordon Bennet and Henry Ward Beecher.
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