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Instructions

Collection Type

  • Toys and games

Date

1923

GUSN

GUSN-241414

Description

Envelope containing four cardboard sheets of Carter's Improved Scale and Doubling Score.

Details

Descriptive Terms

instructions (document genre)
paper (fiber product)
Booklet, Instruction

Inscription

"Carter's/Improved Scale and Doubling Score/For playing the ancient Chinese game called/Pe-Ling, Mah-Jong, Ma-Cheuck, Ma-Deuck, etc./DESIGNED EXPRESSLY/FOR USE WITH THE/"YENMEE" RACK/THE C&G COMPANY/SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA/MADE IN U.S.A." (Black text on paper envelope with decorative egg and dart border and two green dragons)

Maker

Phillips, Anna Pingree Wheatland, 1870-1938 (Owner)

Dimensions

2 3/8 x 4 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Accession Number

2006.44.3519.6

Date

1923 (Copyright 1923)

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