Collection Highlights
Santa Claus and his Works
Date:
1870
Object Number:
LIB.YC1870.Web
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Setto: Game of Syllables
Object Number:
2000.685
Date:
1882
Medium:
Cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 5 3/4 x 4 in. ( 2.5 x 14.6 x 10.2 cm )
Marks:
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME OF/ SYLLABLES/ SETTO/ UNDER PATENT OF JULY 26, 1888 (scratched out) 1881./ Published by SELCHOW & RIGHTER, New York./ Copyrighted 1882."
Description:
"Setto: Game of Syllables" card game with 56 syllable cards and an instruction sheet in a paper covered cardboard box; box chromolithographed with four boys arguing over a game, with the cards and the box scattered and a cat and dog hissing at one another in the foreground; box cover inscribed, "GAME OF/ SYLLABLES/ SETTO/ UNDER PATENT OF JULY 26, 1888 (scratched out) 1881./ Published by SELCHOW & RIGHTER, New York./ Copyrighted 1882."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
