"Life Savers"

board game

TOYS - GAMES
Milton Bradley Co.
USA, MA, Springfield
Before 1925
paper; wood; metal
1.00 x 12.00 x 0

Board game manufactured by Milton Bradley Company, Springfield MA; "Life Savers"; game copyright 1905; comprised of cardboard box cover [97.1.1.1A], depicting rescue scene, breeches buoy apparatus assisting sinking steamship; launch of surfboat at lower right; printed in red across sky "LIFE SAVERS"; at lower left is Milton Bradley Logo with "4020"; directions for playing printed inside box lid; box bottom [97.1.1.1B] serves as playing course, same design as 97.1.2.1B: lithographs of lifeboats lighthouses and lifesaving stations; carboard spin dial with metal arrow [97.1.1.2] with circular arrangement of numbers 1-8; round cardboard game pieces [97.1.1.3-7]; round painted wood playing pieces [97.1.1.8-13]; handwritten in pencil on underside of box bottom "Christmas' 1924".

UNIDENTIFIED lifeboat
1997.1.1.1-13