Game
- Object Name:
- Game
- Object ID:
- 1976.035.03
- Creator:
- Parker Brothers
- Place of Origin:
- Salem, MA
- Date:
- circa 1895
- Description:
- Board game, "PIKE'S PEAK OR BUST." Players try to reach the top of Pike's Peak by connecting the metal posts with the rings on a "traveller" made of twisted brass wire. Game board is a lithograph depicting the mountain, with red lettering: "TRY TO GET UP TO THE TOP / Patented, April 10, 1894 / IT CAN BE DONE". Chromolithographic box cover depicting people climbing the mountain, with a bear and a covered wagon; lettering: "PIKE'S PEAK / OR BUST / PUZZLE " in red, "PARKER BROTHERS / SALEM / MASS. U.S.A.", and "IT CAN BE DONE / IT'S LOTS OF FUN / YOU'LL SAY SO WHEN / YOU'VE ONCE / BEGUN".
- Material:
- Paper
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-1 W-7.5 D-7.5 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Herman M. Noyes
- Subjects:
- Games, Board games
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