Jackstraws
- Object Name:
- Jackstraws
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.224
- Place of Origin:
- France?
- Date:
- circa 1865
- Description:
- Game of jackstraws, consisting of 10 ivory sticks contained in a two-piece paperboard box. Sticks range in length from 3" to 4.4"; each of a different shape, some with teeth, some curved, and some with blade-like ends; some have numbers written in ink. Cover of outer box imprinted, "Spillekins. Federspiel. Jeu de Jonchets. / No. 124", and inscribed in ink, "37@12 / ns". Pencil inscription on bottom of inner box: "A present from [Mrs. Thom?]pson / to Mabel Sho[re?]s April 8 1865." With later handwritten note, "[ ? ] box of some French Man who visited Portsmouth".
- Material:
- Skeletal
Ivory
Cardboard - Dimensions:
- H-0.4 L-4.75 D-1.3 inches
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- People:
- Vaughan, Dorothy M. (1904-2004)
- Subjects:
- Games
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