Accession number
PML 88664
Published
McLoughlin Bro's : New York, [c.1898]
Credit line
Gift of Arthur and Ellen Liman, 2015.
Notes
Title from lid of box.
"Copyright 1898 by McLoughlin Bros. New York"--lid of box.
"The new double dissected puzzles. Making four pictures dissected, with model book"--lid of box.
Model book lacking in Library's copy.
Double sided chromolithograph wooden jigsaw puzzle game. Two pages from the McLoughlin Bros. 1898 edition of "Little Jack Horner", were pasted on each side of a piece of wood, showing two illustrated poems on each side. The folds and sewing holes of the book are still visible in the center of the puzzle, indicating that the sheets were once pages in a book. The cover illustration from the book is used as label on the lid of the box.
"Copyright 1898 by McLoughlin Bros. New York"--lid of box.
"The new double dissected puzzles. Making four pictures dissected, with model book"--lid of box.
Model book lacking in Library's copy.
Double sided chromolithograph wooden jigsaw puzzle game. Two pages from the McLoughlin Bros. 1898 edition of "Little Jack Horner", were pasted on each side of a piece of wood, showing two illustrated poems on each side. The folds and sewing holes of the book are still visible in the center of the puzzle, indicating that the sheets were once pages in a book. The cover illustration from the book is used as label on the lid of the box.
Description
1 game (45 pieces) : ill. (Lithographs) ; 24.9 x 18.8 x 3.8 cm (box)
Provenance
From the collection of Mrs. Ellen Liman.
Binding
Yellow wooden box; slip-top lid with chromolithograph pictorial label pasted on.
Classification
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Department