Scarce 1897 Hood's Spelling School Game, Complete, with Extensive Rules Booklet-- and Sarsaparilla Advertising! modernist design wallpaper covered "band" boxes

wallpaper covered "band" boxes

14 3/4" tall x 3 1/8" wide with arms down

4 9/16" x 3 9/16"

held in a fist

Scarce 1897 Hood's Spelling School Game, Complete, with Extensive Rules Booklet-- and Sarsaparilla Advertising! modernist design wallpaper covered "band" boxesThis is a scarce one like Anagrams, but with bright yellow letters, the backs of them printed with Hood's Sarsaparilla, a root beer like drink promoted as a health tonic with far ranging benefits. Those benefits are details in the printed booklet, which, far more usefully, includes many pages of details for different and increasingly sophisticated games to be played with these letters and which, I do believe, make a compelling argument for them as