Artist/Maker
McLoughlin Brothers
(American, 1854 – 1921)
The Errand Boy: An Amusing Game
1891
Place madeNew York, New York, United States, North America
Wood, cardboard, paper, metal
Overall: 1 x 19 3/4 x 10 3/8 in. (2.5 x 50.2 x 26.4 cm)
The Liman Collection
2000.325
DescriptionBoard game with four wooden playing pieces, a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow and a paper board applied to the bottom half of the paper covered cardboard box; chromolithographed board with a grid of multicolored numbered squares, some with directions, all around a rectangle with an image a boy carrying packages past an man in a striped suit smoking a cigarette and a bank office; cover lithographed with a boy carrying a package and another boy grasping the ear of a boy and dropping packages; box lithographed with the inscription, "THE/ ERRAND/ BOY/ AN AMUSING GAME/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK/ COPYRIGHTED 1891."; directons printed on the box cover.ClassificationsTOYS
Collections
- Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
