Collection Highlights
Baby walker
Date:
1700-1750
Object Number:
INV.14959
Medium:
Cherry (by microanalysis)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Advance and Retreat: A Game of Skill
Object Number:
2000.346
Date:
1900
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 19 5/8 x 10 3/8 in. ( 2.5 x 49.8 x 26.4 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "ADVANCE/ AND/ RETREAT/ A GAME/ of SKILL/ PLAYTIME/ SERIES/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHT/ 1900/ by McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK"
Description:
"Advance and Retreat: A Game of Skill" board game with the board set into the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard box; 14 turned wooden playing pieces, two larger than the others; box cover chromolithographed with a chick dressed in a cocked hat and military waistcoat in the lower left corner and a hare in pink pants in a garden; box cover inscribed, "ADVANCE/ AND/ RETREAT/ A GAME/ of SKILL/ PLAYTIME/ SERIES/ McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHT/ 1900/ by McLOUGHLIN BROS./ NEW YORK"; board chromolithographed with four rings of colored spaces around a town in the center, four corners have images of three boys playing war.
Bibliography:
Hofer, Margaret K. "The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board & Table Games." New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
