Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(GAMES & AMUSEMENTS.) FIRESIDE GAME CO. Game of In Dixie-Land. 52 card deck of playing cards with photographic images of African-Americans on the faces; in the original blue cardstock box; very light wear to the box. An exceptional example with the directions card present. Cincinnati, [1897]

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A particularly fine example of this game, popular at the turn of the 20th century. The images, mostly of African-American children, are quite sympathetic and avoid for the most part the terribly stereotyped exaggerations that the majority of "Black Memorabilia" of this era produced.