Historical Puzzle Box
ca. 1900
Place madeSpringfield, Massachusetts, United States, North America
Cardboard, paper
Each (puzzle): 13 × 18 in. (33 × 45.7 cm)
Container (box top): 13 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (33.3 × 47 cm)
Container (box top): 13 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (33.3 × 47 cm)
The Liman Collection
2000.364
Description"Historical Puzzle Box" set of two thirty paper covered cardboard piece puzzles, one of a colonial drum and fyfe corp marching to battle and the other an image of a battle between red coated colonial British troops and a colonial Massachussetts regiment carrying pine tree flags with a harbor in the background; box top chromolithographed with the two puzzle images and an image of Washington crossing the Delaware divided by an American bald eagle pearch on a U.S. shield; box top inscribed, "HISTORICAL/ PUZZLE/ BOX/ MILTON BRADLEY CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS."Markingslithographed: on the box top: "HISTORICAL/ PUZZLE/ BOX/ MILTON BRADLEY CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS."
ClassificationsTOYS
Collections
- Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
