Artist/Maker Charles M. Crandall

Picture blocks

ca. 1900

Place madeMontrose, Pennsylvania, United States, North America

Wood, paper

Container (box): 1 5/8 × 8 7/8 × 4 5/8 in. (4.1 × 22.5 × 11.7 cm)

The Liman Collection

2000.283

DescriptionEight paper covered picture blocks in a dove-tailed wood box; each block chromolithographed with mix and match body parts, two blocks make a complete person; label appled to the underside of the box.

Markingslithographed: on the label: "THE BLOCKS IN THIS CASKET MAKE/ 300 DIFFERENT PICTURES./ They are not injured by Washing, never wear out, afford/ endless amusement for a Child, and by an almost endless/ variety of Combinations of the Pictures, are interesting to/ Older Persons./ (PATENT APPLIED FOR.)"

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