Deck, Card
- Title:
- Pit
- Object Name:
- Deck, Card
- Object ID:
- 1994.006.47
- Creator:
- Parker Brothers
- Place of Origin:
- Salem, MA
- Description:
- Game, card, "Pit." In original cardboard box, with cover imprinted, "PIT / REGISTERED TRADEMARK / PATENT PENDING / SOLE MAKERS / PARKER BROTHERS. / INCORPORATED / SALEM, MASS., U.S.A." Includes 72 cards. Each depicts stock market engraving, with a commodity listed (cotton, hops, corn, oats, barley, wheat, flax, rye). Handwritten game instructions inside box.
- Material:
- Paper
Cardboard - Dimensions:
- H-1 W-3.9 L-5.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Jane Chworowsky (1929-1993), was born in PA and raised in Newport, NH. She attended Plymouth State College, and briefly taught English in Charlestown, NH (1953-55). She ran an antiques business -- Jane's Cabin Antiques -- at her home in Croydon, NH. She bequeathed the contents of her home and business to NHHS.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Jane Lee Chworowsky
- Subjects:
- Card games, Stock market, Stock exchanges, Commodity exchanges, Grains, Grain trade
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