Artist/Maker Parker Brothers

Pit

1919

Place madeSalem, Massachusetts, United States, North America

Cardboard, paper

Overall: 1 x 5 3/8 x 4 in. (2.5 x 13.7 x 10.2 cm)

The Liman Collection

2000.401

Introduced in 1904, the lively trading game Pit simulates the ups and downs, desperate deals, and nonstop action of an actual trading floor. Speculation in such important commodities as corn and gold made and lost fortunes for traders competing in the capital of capitalism, New York.

Description"Pit" card game with an instruction sheet and 65 playing cards with backs showing a large steamship, tugboat and a train at a wharf, faces show a trading pit and are printed with seven commodities and a bull and a bear in a paper covered cardboard box; box inscribed, "PIT/ TRADE MARK/ REGISTERED U.S. PATENT OFFICE/ AND IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES/ Exciting Fun for Everyone/ PARKER BROTHERS/ INCORPORATED/ SALEM, MASS., NEW YORK, LONDON".

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