Sold for:
$1,320
$1,320
Two Frames with Twelve Hand-painted Playing Cards for "H. M.S. Pinafore" Card Game, America, c. 1880s, the playing cards illustrated in ink and watercolor, one with a lithograph image of a ship, each depicting figures and items from the comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan, H.M.S. Pinafore , each card measures 4 x 2 3/4 in., six mounted in each black-painted beaded wood frame. Note: The playing cards are copied after a card game based on the comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan, and manufactured by McLoughlin Bros., New York, c. 1879, called "The New and Amusing Game of H.M.S. Pinafore."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03
