Antique Wooden Games Including 1880s Cornhole Predecessor "Faba Baga; or Parlor Quoits"
Item Details
A collection of three antique wooden games, featuring a board for the tossing game_Faba Baga_, a predecessor of the game today called cornhole. This walnut board on a folding stand, produced circa the 1880s by Morton E. Converse & Co., has two circular holes with point values, and is marked ‘Faba Baga; Or; Parlor Quoits; Patented’; an instruction label on the underside reads ‘Faba Baga: Or Parlor Quoits. The New And Popular American Game.’ Also included is a circa 1890s ‘Universal Spelling Board’: described on the label as ‘a set of Lettered Blocks that children cannot lose or scatter around the floor,’ this toy features fifty-five red letter tiles which can be arranged into words by sliding along intersecting channels. The ‘Reversible Educational Board’ is a similar toy produced circa the 1910s, featuring a reversible design with letters on one side of the tiles and digits and mathematical operators on the other.
Condition
- surface wear and fading throughout consistent with age and use; Faba Baga label
Dimensions
- measures Faba Baga board.
Item #
17NAS033-327
