Antique SIR HINKLE FUNNY-DUSTER GAME Parker Bros 1903

Description

This vintage 1903 SIR HINKLE FUNNY-DUSTER GAME by Parker Bros is quite rare. It is in very good vintage condition. Some of the cards have pencil marks on the back.
The box is intact with no tape holding the edges or corners.
The box measures 5"X 7".
Also included is an unrelated booklet entitled “Peter Coddle’s Visit to New York” A Reading Game.
The game consists of a deck of 20 thick cardboard playing cards, each with a picture and title, an identifying motif, and each marked in the upper right corner with either a duster, a cup and saucer, a whip, or a pot. These symbols identify four families –the Funnyduster’s Family, the Butler’s Family, the Gardener’s Family, and the Huntsman’s Family.
There is no instruction sheet however I was able to find the instructions online. They are as follows:
The cards are shuffled and dealt evenly to all players. Each player in turn freely asks any player for a specific card, if that player has the card asked for, the player must give that card to the person asking. Play continues for the asking player until the person asked does not have the card asked for and the turn goes to the next player.
Once a set of Family cards is collected it is laid on the table and retired from play (scoring no points for the player). The object is to be the player that lays down the last Family set
A twist in the mechanics of the game adds fun to the gameplay. Anytime a card is given to a player, the receiver must say "Thank You", if the receiver fails to do so, the first person to say "Duster" receives all of the cards from the person that neglected to say "Thank You". The person receiving the cards must in turn say "Thank You" or is subject to the same "Duster" rule.
The person that did not say "Thank You" and lost all of their cards cannot be spoken to. They do not get any additional cards, but if someone speaks to this person, then the first person (any player) to say "Duster" receives the cards of the person that spoke to the person with no cards (and again, "Thank You" must follow receipt of the cards or the "Duster" rule applies again)