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Game Board

Collection Type

  • Toys and games

Date

1820-1860

GUSN

GUSN-2887

Description

Square form with galleried edge painted wtih checker board/chess pattern in beige and green and outlined in black within beige and green banded border. The edge board is painted beige with black ends. The other side is incised wth a geometric pattern painted beige.

Details

Descriptive Terms

gameboards (board game elements)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
BOARD, GAME

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

14.125 x 14.125 x 1.375 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1355

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