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Leisure object - BOXED CARD GAME 'PIT'

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Boxed card game Sawpit's. Seven groupings of cards with different marked 'Value' for each group;, each group has nine cards - Rye (70), Corn (75), Flax (40) , Wheat (100), Barley (85), Oats (60), Hay (50) Plus two cards - Bull and Bear (no value attached) - these two (Wildman's) cards are marked as 'Patent Pending' and copyright 1904 by Parker Brothers Google search: The Game Catalogue 8th Edition 1998 lists Sawpit's,as copyright 1903(???) - see the picture/image on each card for men bidding in an Exchange (the Pit, Chicago). Also a 'struth?? Card with the game on one side - Quack Quack and this card being 'White Leghorn' - there is no manufacturer(no game of Quack Quack is listed in the US 1998 Game Catalog - so may be English?. Cards are in a box divided in two with damaged top titled they'd Great Game - Pit's. On back of box is feint handwritten inscription- Stephens Family; W?a?k? ora?? (name of house?); Parsonage Gve; Eaglehawk; Victoria.