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Card game:Oriental Color Game

McLoughlin Brothers1875

The Strong National Museum of Play

The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester , United States

With an early copyright date of 1875, McLoughlin Brothers' Oriental Color Game is a simple matching card game. A spinner is included, called "McLoughlin's Improved Indicator." This shows which color card a player may pick up. There certainly was a degree of fascination with--though little true knowledge of--Asian culture during this time in history. Could the designs on these cards have been drawn from early Japanese tiles from a Mah Jongg game?

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  • Title: Card game:Oriental Color Game
  • Creator: McLoughlin Brothers
  • Date Created: 1875
  • Location: New York, NY
  • Subject Keywords: color
  • Type: Card Games
  • Medium: printed cardstock, cardboard, paper
  • Object ID: 107.3084
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