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ITEM No   MAKER  c.DATE 

DETAILS  inc. CONDITION (Mint, EF, VF with ±, Fair, Poor)

PRICE 

(Listed alphabetically by MAKER/PUBLISHER)

125 Ariel 1955 Lenny the Lion’s Happy Families. From the children’s TV programme. Families are mainly animal characters, but also the Mickey Flynn family. 48/48+rules+box – all EF including the box. £20
466 Ariel 1960 Sooty saves sixpence featuring the likeable (or annoying) glove puppet from the very popular TV series. 52/52 with rules and box (missing top flap) VF. £14
583 Ariel

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1960 Sooty's Magic Card Game with Sooty and Sweep from the glove puppet f popular TV series. 54/54 + 3 advert cards for other games with rules and box. VF with some minor tears and corner nibbles. £10
264 Chad Valley

1930 Snap lovely designs typical of the 1920s mostly of children and a few everyday items. 60/60 with telescopic box, no rules. Good condition VF, one card creased.

£28

126 Church Missionary Society

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1925 ‘Jugger - an Indian Game’ being the phonetic pronunciation of ‘jagah’ a Hindustani word for ‘place’ or ‘post’. These juggers are places where missionaries were working in 1925. A document of Church history. Good quality cards printed in purple and orange on white with 48 picture cards, 9 map cards and 7 question cards. 64/64+rules+box. EF. Rare.

£70

248 Clifford Series 1960 Animal Rummy 4 sets of 9 cards featuring pig, duck, rabbit and cockerel. 36/36 with rules and box. Unused condition. £9
459 Clifford Series 1960 Circus snap 9 sets of 4 cards featuring various circus acts. 36/36 with rules and box. Mint. £9
120 Cow & Gate 1930 Cow and Gate Happy Family game with ‘Smiler’. 48/48+instructions+contents list+box. EF  £22
553 De La Rue

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1900 Snap. 13 sets of 4 cards each with well drawn and amusing characters. 52/52 with the original box (slight damage). No rules. Cards are used, VF- some creasing. £22
223 De La Rue 1920 Snap. 13 sets of 4 cards each with well drawn and amusing characters as #553 above, later cheap printing in red/black only. 52/52 fairly well used. Remains of old elastic band on two cards as illustrated. VF- £6
602 De La Rue 1905 Cheery Families with 13 sets of families, Mr Mrs son and daughter, a lovely Victorian game with typical everyday occuations of the time. 52/52 with the rules leaflet and the original box, all in good VF condition. £48
342 De La Rue 1905 Noah’s Ark animal families game with 17 sets of 3 and Noah. One of the original DLR series of card games. A difficult one to find. 52/52 cards VF (two cards minute tears in corner) with box (missing one side of top telescopic section) and rules (HP Gibson on rules). £60
122  Jaques 1900 National Gallery, British School. Famous artists and some of their pictures. Black and white  printing only. Large cards 70x85mm. 60/60+outer part of box VF-  (Interesting label on box referring to new laws on copyright.) £18
134 Jaques 1900 National Gallery, First Series British school. Monochrome reproductions of famous works of art in the nation’s collection at Trafalgar Square. Large cards 70x85mm. 60/60 with rules and very crisp box. VF, a good example. £40
123 Jaquesfp123_JaqFrench.jpg (18764 bytes) 1930 French for Fun. Quartet game, 11 sets of 4 household items. 44/44+rules+box. EF £22
575 Logitoys (France) 1992 Winter Olympic Games Happy Families 1992. Produced for the Albertville Games with logo on each card. Quartet game, 7 sets of 6 relations engaged in winter Olympic sports. 42/42 +title card+rules+box. EF £7
346 Pepys (Castell) 1938 Shuffled Symphonies produced by permission of Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Ltd. Characters from various early Disney cartoons including Goofy, Donald, Pluto, Snow White etc. 45/45+rules+box. EF. £45
566 Pepys (Castell)

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1940 Peter Pan green back and padded top box with green design 45/45 + rules + box. Good VF, repaired tear to top of box. £22
322 Pepys (Castell) 1940 Victory, World War II card game. 4 suits of Army, Navy, RAF and Home (auxiliaries) in rising ranks numbered 1-9 with four ’Master’ card caricatures of Churchill, Chamberlain, Gort and Newall. Four Germans numbered 5,10,15 and 25 with caricatures of Goering, Goebbels, Ribbentrop and Hitler. 44/44 with box (damaged). (Photocopy of the rules can be supplied.)  £100
234 Pepys (Castell) 1945 Mickey and the Beanstalk from the Disney film 'Fun and fancy free'. 44/44 + fold-out beanstalk+ rules and box (missing top flap). Cards are in very good condition and do not appear to have been played with. EF £32
567 Pepys (Castell) 1945 Mickey and the Beanstalk from the Disney film 'Fun and fancy free'. 44/44 + fold-out beanstalk. Cards are VF with some creases, box is missing top flap and part of back. £12
355 Pepys (Castell) 1950 Express  first edition with fold out stations. Features trains from LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS. Reverse design of the ‘Mallard’ in shades of blue and white. 44/44 with stations,  rules and box all in good condition (box slight d. on one edge). £32
420 Pepys (Castell)

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1950 Express  first edition with fold out stations. Features trains from LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS. Reverse design of the ‘Mallard’ in shades of red and white. 44/44 with stations VF+,  rules and box (box slight d. on one edge). Original price on box 2/6d.

£35

552

Pepys (Castell)

1955

Flight. A game of international air routes with passport and customs controls, weather hazards and delays. 44+rules+box (slight damage). Cards good VF+. This is a relatively scarce game in the Pepys series.

£28

586

Pepys (Castell)

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1965

The Planes Game A companion game to The Car Game and in the same format with horizontally designed cards.44/44 + rules + box. Good VF

£18

341 Pepys (Castell) 1975 Woody Woodpecker and his friends from the Walter Lanz cartoons. 43/43 with the box and rules. All in mint condition. (Pepys games are usually 44 cards, in this later edition the 44th card is the rule card.) £18
236 Piatnik 1960 Animal families No 279, quartet game with animals, birds and fish 40/40 with box (slight damage.) Used VF. £8
129 Renouard (France)

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1807 The rulers of England from Egbert to George II. Published  by Antoine Auguste Renouard of Paris dated 1807, printed by P.Didot the elder. All text in French. 46 cards, (believed complete because it runs up to George II but does not include George III who was king and still alive! when this was printed) + card stating the rules + part of original box. 68x105mm VF, slight damage to top edge of a few cards. £150
124 Sum-It Ltd 1935 Sum-It money game with sums of money and coins to make up the values. Rev. design in red and white of a biplane flying over mountain peak. 60/60+rules+box (telescopic.) VF £12
247 Tower Press 1950 Beat Your Neighbour  family transport theme, one of a set of five games in the series (Donkey, Snap, Happy Families, Old Maid). 35/36 cards (missing one 'Put' card) with rules and original box.  £8
119 Tree brand 1940 ‘Convoy’ World War 2 shipping protection game. 49/49+rules+box(no top flap). VF+ £40
565 Tree brand

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1940 ‘Convoy’ World War 2 shipping protection game. 49/49 complete with rules and score cards, box is missing the top flap. VF £42
563 Universal Publications 1935 Rush Hour a game for children ‘aged 5 to 50’, rummy style game of collecting sets of transport types aeroplane, bus, coach, train etc. Red and blue printing. 52/52 with rules and box. Cards are VF+ and the box is excellent making this a good item. £32
345 Unknownfp345_pantosnap.JPG (48045 bytes) 1950 Pantomime Snap made up of 8 sets of 4 cards featuring Aladdin, Cinderella, Puss in Boots etc. Low quality card and printing. 32/32 with rules and box. VF+ £10
321 Unknown 1955 Nursery Rhyme Snap low quality card with nursery rhyme verses and pictures. 36/36+rules+box. EF £5
323 Unknown

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1955 Circus Snap low quality cards depicting various circus acts. 36/36+rules+box missing flaps. VF £5
61 Waddington 1970 Shop. A noisy game for 3 to 8 players, rather like snap with a twist. A complete set of 52 cards with the original rules,  8 shop cards and the box.  Cards VF+ there is one crease, the box is very good and complete with the plastic tray. 

£6

564

Woolworth

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1940

Snap. Wartime production. 12 sets of 4 which include Golly oh golly, Our fishermen, The arm of the law, Stop me and buy one, Road up! etc. 48/48 + instructions + box (slight damage, top flap detached but present), good VF.

£26

        

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