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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Alphabet Playing Cards) |
| Author: |
Bell, George C. |
| Title: |
Bell's Transparent Teaching Cards |
| Place: |
Boston |
| Publisher: |
Forbes Lithographic MFG Co. |
| Date: |
[c.1865] |
| Item # : |
211168 |
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| Sale Number |
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430 |
| Lot Number |
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2 |
| Sale Name |
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| Decorative Arts, Architecture & Design with Original Artwork by Don Freeman |
| Sale Date |
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06/10/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 240 |
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| Description: |
| 25 playing cards, each illustrating an object that begins with that letter of the alphabet through a Hold-To-Light image. Lacks the letter "A." Each card is 4x2¾, and they are housed in the original printed paper card case. |
| In the original card case, with a woodblock image of a teacher holding up a card to the light, while children look on. Belonged to a little girl named Delia Hipkins, her name and address are inked in period hand on blank side of card case. Each card has a word printed in red within a nice red border, and the hold-to-light image of that word, beginning with the appropriate letter. For example, X for Xerxes. A very scarce piece of American educational ephemera, not located by OCLC. |
| Condition: |
| The case is moderately worn, with a few holes that have been repaired, some tearing at edges, smudges, and someone scribbled in ink over the lithography imprint, etc. at bottom; each card with smudges and light soiling from handling; good. |
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