Parker Brothers "Hidden Titles" Antique Rebus Puzzle Game kinetic toy One finds a fair number

One finds a fair number of handmade doggy doorstops from the 1940s and 50s (I wonder if they were something people made in shop class

My obsession with antique Spellicans continues and always keep an eye out--and when I spotted these there was no way I wasn't going to snatch them up

which was stamped "Made in Occupied Japan"

a mother and child

all with different names

Parker Brothers "Hidden Titles" Antique Rebus Puzzle Game kinetic toy One finds a fair numberWe had a lot of fun testing this one prior to my listing it! I really love a rebus, and this late 19th century "Hidden Titles" game contains a smart thirty of them wonderfully rendered through drawings and hand written text lithographed onto nice weight cards giving clues to the names of 30 places around the country and around the world. An early game of Parker Brothers, which was based in Salem, Massachusetts, it does slightly favor locations in this