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Clipper Games Ltd. (not to be confused with Clipper, the Dutch subsidiary of Parker Brothers in the 1970s) [3] was a British company based in Portsmouth.Although reviewer Brian Walker noted that the company planned to create a series of family games, Ocean Trader was their only product, a 1988 board game designed by John Rudford.
A sailing card is a printed advertisement with information on a ship and its sailing dates, especially clipper ships. [1] Mystic Seaport in Mystic Connecticut has a collection of sailing cards. [2] They were used from the mid-1850s in the U.S. to promote sailings and sometimes included engraved pictures and several colors and were displayed in ...
The Clipper card. On June 16, 2010, MTC changed the TransLink name to Clipper, an homage to the clipper ships of the 19th century, the fastest way to travel from the East Coast to San Francisco, [16] and eliminated the contact interface which had been used to load funds onto the cards at TransLink machines.
Most clipper cards were printed in the 1850s and 1860s, and represented the first pronounced use of color in American advertising art. Perhaps 3,500 cards survive. With their rarity and importance as artifacts of nautical, Western, and printing history, clipper cards are valued by both private collectors and institutions. [35]
In 1826 McKay moved to New York, where he served his apprenticeship under Isaac Webb in the Webb & Allen shipyard from 1827 to 1831. [1] [2] He then returned briefly to Nova Scotia and built a boat with his uncle, but after they were swindled from the proceeds he returned to New York and took a job in the Brown & Bell shipyard, working for Jacob Bell. [3]
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The Intuit Dome, the LA Clippers' new home, has more than 1,400 toilets to cut down on lines. Steve Ballmer , a former Microsoft CEO, spent $2 billion on the arena, which opened in August.
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