Artist/Maker Edgar O. Clark

Mimic War

1890-1900

Place madeNew York, New York, United States, North America

Cardboard, paper, wood, metal

Each (figure): 6 1/8 x 2 x 3/4 in. (15.6 x 5.1 x 1.9 cm)
Container (box): 1 x 19 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (2.5 x 48.9 x 26 cm)

The Liman Collection

2000.480

Mimic War includes thirty military figures that children could use to act out their favorite war battles. Though the box cover illustrates soldiers from the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), the "action" figures inside are dressed in the naval and military costume of the Spanish-American War (1898).

Description"Mimic War" tabletop toy soldiers game with box and 30 military figures; cover of box lithographed with an image of a battle scene during the Franco-Prussian War with Prussian cavalry and French foot soldiers; cover inscribed, "MIMIC WAR / TOKALON SERIES / TRADE MARK / Published by EDGAR O. CLARK, / SUCCESSOR TO / CLARK & SOWDON / NEW YORK;" twenty-four cardboard figures dressed in Spanish-American War costume, with seven different characters in army and naval dress with a name handwritten on the back of each figure; all supported by wooden stands; six figures applied to piece of wall paper; two small printed U.S. flags attached to wooden poles and one partial figure.

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