First scrabble game board patent from 1956 is a piece of digital artwork by Eti Reid which was uploaded on December 15th, 2014.
First scrabble game board patent from 1956
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First scrabble game board patent from 1956
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Eti Reid
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Digital Art - Original Art
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First scrabble game board patent from 1956 .
According to the official Scrabble(R) website, the first version of the game, called Lexico, was invented in 1931 by an unemployed architect named Alfred Mosher Butts. Unfortunately, his repeated attempts in the 1930s to secure a patent on the game and license it to Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley all ended in failure. In the mid-1940s, James and Helen Brunot of Newtown, Conn., who had acquired one of Butts' homemade sets, entered into a partnership with Butts to market a redesigned, simpler version of the game. The trademark Scrabble was registered on December 16, 1948. The Brunots patented an improvement to the game in 1956.
Sketch from the US patent office used to achieve the vintage flavour.
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December 15th, 2014
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