1853 W.& S.B.Ives, Salem MA Goody Two Shoes Parlor Game - 4 Cards + Instructions (Among the Earliest Parlor Games) japanese tea canister with black paper on back

with black paper on back side corners from where removed from album

4 1/4" l x 3 1/4" t x 2 1/4" w and in sound condition

and the "snacs" [snakes] hatching and then fully grown

16 1/2" t x 9 5/16" w x 5" d

and ever rarer that I fall in love with one

1853 W.& S.B.Ives, Salem MA Goody Two Shoes Parlor Game - 4 Cards + Instructions (Among the Earliest Parlor Games) japanese tea canister with black paper on backThough 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