Ephemera: Card Games: Box 1
GUSN-195326
The back of card 29 in the game, Characteristics, an Original and Amusing Game by a Lady, published by the firm W. & S. B. Ives of Salem, Massachusetts in 1843. The goal of the game was to collect cards by identifying famous personages by their personality traits. When a player failed to match the person to their characteristics, she or he had to read a pair of admonitory epigrams on the back of the card. The question on the front is: "England, died A.D. 901. He was distinguished for: genius for government and for war; learning; taste for poetry and music; beauty; energy, prudence; ingenuity; punctuality; piety." The answer is Alfred the Great, King of England, who died in 901. The epigrams on the back are: "I love the virtues which I cannot claim" and "Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes." A pattern of palmettes decorates the edge of the card. W. & S. B. Ives, one of the firms of William and Stephen Bradshaw Ives, was bought out by Parker Brothers in 1887.
kings (people)
card games (game sets)
epigrams
educational games
printed ephemera
playing cards
DigitalID 000449
AccessID 660
Other identifier HNEDID-000449
1 playing card
EP001
Ephemera collection
EP001.08.TMP.027
1843
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Wessex (England, United Kingdom) [general region]
W. & S.B. Ives (Firm) (publisher)
playing cards
Alfred, King of England, 849-899
Ives, Stephen Bradshaw, 1801-1883
Ives, William, 1794-1874
Abbott, Beverly
Back of 000347
Item
Ephemera: Card Games: Box 1
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