Collection Highlights
Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company
Date:
ca. 1630
Object Number:
1885.5
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, red and black chalk, and red gouache, with contours incised by a stylus on laid on paper, mounted on card
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Game of Sailor Boy
Object Number:
2000.599
Date:
1889
Medium:
Cardboard, paper, wood, lead
Dimensions:
Open (board): 17 × 17 in. (43.2 × 43.2 cm)
Container (box): 1 5/8 × 17 1/4 × 9 in. (4.1 × 43.8 × 22.9 cm)
Marks:
lithographed: on the board: "GAME OF/ SAILOR BOY/ RULES OF THE GAME/ Copyright and Published by J. H. SINGER, New York, U. S. A., 1889"
lithographed: on the box cover: "GAME/ OF/ SAILOR BOY/ COPYRIGHTED & PUBLISHED/ J. H. SINGER, NEW YORK, U.S.A.".
Description:
"Game of Sailor Boy" board game with a paper covered wooden spinner, two lead sailor figures and a paper covered cardboard board in a paper covered box; board with a papth of circles with images of home in two corners, a raft and a ship in the other two; board inscribed, "GAME OF/ SAILOR BOY/ RULES OF THE GAME/ Copyright and Published by J. H. SINGER, New York, U. S. A., 1889"; box cover lithographed with a dancing sailor boy on the deck of a ship; box cover inscribed, "GAME/ OF/ SAILOR BOY/ COPYRIGHTED & PUBLISHED/ J. H. SINGER, NEW YORK, U.S.A."
Credit Line:
The Liman Collection
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
