Patent Model - Improvement in Game Apparatus
Maker and role
Charles Knight (b.1840, d.1901), Patentee
Production date
Mar 11 1879
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Media/Materials
Mixed woods, paper, steel, paint
Measurements
3/8 x 9 5/8 x 11" (1 x 24.4 x 27.9cm)
Description
Knight's patented game apparatus "consists in a number of consecutive arches, arranged usually in two series, and the series at obtuse angles to each other, each arch having a pendent numbered disk, and the alternate disks of contrasting colors, and is counted by forcing an object-ball, arranged in front of the cental arch, through an arch carrying a disk of the same color, by striking it, through the medium of a cue or mallet, with a ball upon the base-line..." (Patent Number 213,209)
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Object number
2015.14.2819a,b
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