Collection Highlights
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Date:
Object Number:
LIB.QH41.C26.1974
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
The Fortune Teller
Object Number:
2000.306
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 )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "THE/ Fortune/ Teller/ A/ NOVEL/ AND/ Exciting/ GAME/ MILTON BRADLEY CO./ SPRINGFIELD, MASS/ 4303"
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
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
