Rare, Wonderfully Graphic, and Fun 1884 Anderson Whist and Game Counter possessed in Northampton

in Northampton

" I think just as singles they are pretty terrific

painted white on one side

This will stand on its own but slants forward

one on the belly

Rare, Wonderfully Graphic, and Fun 1884 Anderson Whist and Game Counter possessed in NorthamptonI really love this thing, an unusually elaborate whist and "game" (I am really not sure what specific games) counter, patented by "Anderson" (I have found nothing definitive about) in 1884. (Whist itself is a trick taking game, which I've happily learned takes its name from the 17th c. word whist (or wist), meaning quiet, silent, attentive, and the root of the modern wistful.) I love it as an object, and a mechanical one, with GAME in black caps