Rare Handmade Peg Solitaire games handmade by one John. M. Shaw of Milwaukee circa 1940. Solitaire is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. Invented centuries ago, these elaborate challenges are complicated and involve mathematics and considerable will to solve. The game is beyond me, but these homemade game boards of cardboard with elaborate construction and obsessive detail are my kind of thing. To find, not to play. I don’t have the patience. Remarkable relics of what people went through before television and the computer. Note reverse of one board which supposedly reveals “the solution” which means nothing to me.
Three handmade and homemade Peg Solitaire game “boards” of cardboard by J. M. Shaw Milwaukee 1940. Collection Jim Linderman. Dull Tool Dim Bulb
