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An ivory medical doll with a wooden base. A Chinese medical doll, also known as a diagnostic doll or "Doctor's lady", is a type of small sculpture of a female figure, historically used in China and parts of Asia as a diagnostic tool.
The museum's collection includes over 160 automobiles, Steinway grand pianos, die-cast toy cars, pedal cars, antique boating items, golf memorabilia, Hit and Miss motors, brass cash registers, clocks, bicycles, boats, sports memorabilia, motorcycles, can openers, spark plugs, artifacts and memorabilia.
Wealthier families could afford toys made from more expensive materials, such as ivory. [105] Roman children likely would have made use of household objects or common materials such as sticks, hands, spindle whorls, loom weights, stones, broken pottery, and possibly earth as makeshift toys. [110]
Ivory has been valued since ancient times in art or manufacturing for making a range of items from ivory carvings to false teeth, piano keys, fans, and dominoes. [9] Elephant ivory is the most important source, but ivory from mammoth, walrus, hippopotamus, sperm whale, orca, narwhal and warthog are used as well.
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips or dots) or is blank. The backs of the tiles in a set are indistinguishable, either blank or having some common design.
Continental Motors Company was an American manufacturer of internal combustion engines. The company produced engines as a supplier to many independent manufacturers of automobiles, tractors, trucks, and stationary equipment (such as pumps, generators , and industrial machinery drives) from the 1900s through the 1960s.
Dominoes: All Fives. All Fives features beautiful art, fast gameplay, and solo or multiplayer modes. Expose multiples of five and score! By Masque Publishing. Advertisement. Advertisement. all.
It is believed that American games using dominoes are descended from the Chinese game Pai gow, which means "make nine" and uses a variant of the double-six domino set, with some duplicated dominoes and omitting the blank values; however, the European double-six domino set was developed, possibly independently, around the start of the 18th ...