Style E No. 1 Archarena Combination Game Board Once Owned by Olive C. Hazlett

This cloth bag includes pieces for the No. 1 Archarena combination game board made by the Carrom Company of Luddington, Michigan. There is no game board, nor does the bag include two long cues included as part of the game.

In the bag are thirty wooden rings. Some are painted green (12 rings), red (12 rings), or black (one ring). Five are uncolored. Also in the bag are fifteen paper discs numbered from 1 to 15, ten small wooden tenpins about the size of chess pieces, three wooden spinning tops, one collapsible dice box, two wooden dice, three wooden yellow discs that fit in holes in the rings, three wooden green discs of the same size, one book of rules, one card for recording "pin scoring", a cardboard leaflet describing Carrom bridge tables and giving rules for ten pins (this leaflet may serve as a backstop for playing tenpins), and a tag describing the equipment. Also listed on the tag are fifty-seven games that could be played on the board.

According to the company web site, the Style D No. 2 board was made from 1902 to 1941 and the Style E from 1899 to 1939. The company was called Carrom Company from 1914 to 1939. The instructions list copyrights of 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1901. A number on the back page of the rules is 330, indicating rules printed in March of 1930. Hence the date 1930 assigned to the object.

The bag of game pieces was once owned by the mathematician Olive C. Hazlett. For related objects, see transactions 1998.0314 and 2015.3004.

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