Style E No. 1 Archarena Combination Game Board Once Owned by Olive C. Hazlett
date: label: date made
content: 1930
name: label: maker
content: Carrom Company
notes: label: Description
content: This cloth bag includes pieces for the No. 1 Archarena combination game board made by the Carrom Company of Luddington, Michigan. There is no game board, nor does the bag include two long cues included as part of the game.
label: Description
content: In the bag are thirty wooden rings. Some are painted green (12 rings), red (12 rings), or black (one ring). Five are uncolored. Also in the bag are fifteen paper discs numbered from 1 to 15, ten small wooden tenpins about the size of chess pieces, three wooden spinning tops, one collapsible dice box, two wooden dice, three wooden yellow discs that fit in holes in the rings, three wooden green discs of the same size, one book of rules, one card for recording "pin scoring", a cardboard leaflet describing Carrom bridge tables and giving rules for ten pins (this leaflet may serve as a backstop for playing tenpins), and a tag describing the equipment. Also listed on the tag are fifty-seven games that could be played on the board.
label: Description
content: According to the company web site, the Style D No. 2 board was made from 1902 to 1941 and the Style E from 1899 to 1939. The company was called Carrom Company from 1914 to 1939. The instructions list copyrights of 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1901. A number on the back page of the rules is 330, indicating rules printed in March of 1930. Hence the date 1930 assigned to the object.
label: Description
content: The bag of game pieces was once owned by the mathematician Olive C. Hazlett. For related objects, see transactions 1998.0314 and 2015.3004.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Luddington
label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Ludington
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Mathematicians
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hermitage of St. Joseph
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0027.16
label: accession number
content: 2015.0027
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0027.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: game pieces, bag of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (bag, dice box cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (rings, discs, dice, tenpins, topa material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (numberd discs, documents, dice box material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (strings on tag, bag material)