1853 W.& S.B.Ives, Salem MA Goody Two Shoes Parlor Game - 4 Cards + Instructions (Among the Earliest Parlor Games) snaking but making a perfect pedestal

but making a perfect pedestal now

and certainly Dark Engine would make an equally good name for a race car

7 5/8" x 4 3/4" and in very good condition

It measures 6" tall x 2 3/8" wide x 3/16" deep without the string hanging loop

I really love old paint sample cards of all sorts

1853 W.& S.B.Ives, Salem MA Goody Two Shoes Parlor Game - 4 Cards + Instructions (Among the Earliest Parlor Games) snaking but making a perfect pedestalThough there are only four cards here, they are super scarce ones, as is the sheet of printed game instructions, all produced by Q. & S. B. Ives Company of Salem, Massachusetts, the first American producer of board games (The Mansion of Happiness in 1830 the earliest) and card games, with these dating to 1853. I believe this "Goody Two Shoes Game," along with the better known "Dr. Busby," was designed by Anne W. Abbott (1808 1908) of Beverly, MA, a