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Condition: Very good. 27 (of 28) 3½" x 2½" cards in a 3½" x 2¾" clothcovered cardboard box. Very good: one card lacking; box a bit edge worn but sturdy; cards fresh with a touch of scuffing. This is a rare work of advertising and product placement in the form of an illustrated card game manufactured in New York. Each card features the name of a product, a relevant illustration, and four taglines, one of which is printed in red. There are seven numbered "suits" of four cards each, labeled "Clerks," "Jobbers," "Manufacturers" or "Retailers." The "Clerks" card is missing from group 3. We imagine the point of the game could be to collect all the cards in a category, played a la "Authors" or "Go Fish," or maybe by players guessing the correct slogan for each good. The cards advertise brands of skin cream, toothpaste, talcum powder, coffee, high heels and safety razors, Campbell's Soup, the Victor Talking Machine, "French Pocket Hat" and more. Volume 181 of the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office shows that the patent application for the game was filed in May 1912, with the trademark registered that August. This box indicates that the game was issued in between those months. A rare, illustrated advertising game in excellent condition. Not recorded in OCLC.