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ITEM No	MAKER	c.DATE	DETAILS inc. CONDITION (Mint, EF, VF with ±, Fair, Poor)	PRICE
(Listed alphabetically by MAKER/PUBLISHER)
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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
897	Chad Valley	1910	Old Maid A delightful old set of characters with pairs being tradesmen and the like and other pairs their rather grim wives, in fact the Old Maid is more attractive than many of the other 'ladies'! Some interesting foreign characters like Mr Ikeymo the old clothes man, Mr Italiano the ice-cream man. Sadly 2 cards are missing, Mr Gutterman the hawker has no wife. 39/41 with rules and good box. Cards VF, one has a vertical crease.	£30
898	Chad Valley	1920	Snap An endearing set of children engaged in various activities. Very much of the period with well drawn and amusing illustrations all the more striking for being against a plain white background. Good edges and sharp square corners. Used but few signs of it. Good VF. 40/40 with the rules and a good box.	£35
896	Chad Valley	1920	Happy Families An attractive set of families in various trades and pastimes: Chef, Gardener, Sweet Man, Jeweller, Pierrrot, Artist, Soldier, Golfer, Fisherman and Sailor. Plain white cards with square corners. In excellent unused condition with the rules and good early Chad Valley box. 40/40 + rules + box. EF	£40
264	Chad Valley	1930	Snap lovely designs typical of the 1920s mostly of children and a few everyday items. 60/60 with telescopic box. Good condition VF, one card creased.	£36
895	Chad Valley	1955	Old Maid A very attractive set of this game with pairs such as motorist, airman, artist, nurse, boxer and so on in illustrations very much of the period. Good quality glazed card. 41/41 with the rules and box. All in excellent condition. A fine set.	£25
126	Church Missionary Society	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.	£60
874	Clifford Series	1960	Animal Rummy 4 sets of cards numbered 1 to 9, cockerel, duck, rabbit and pig. 36/36 with rules and box, all in good clean condition, cards hardly used if at all.	£8
954	De La Rue	1910	Golliwogg another of the desirable DLR pictorial games produced in conjunction with Longman Green & Co publishers of the works of Dorothy Upton. Illustrations from those by Florence Upton. Cards are in very good above average condition with clean edges and no damage. The telescopic box is missing the end of the top section and the end of the inner part. 48/48 with rules and box.	£140
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
890	Happy Hours	1950	Snap 9 sets of four cards showing a rather wacky assortment of children engaged in various sporting activities. Typical low grade card and cheap printing, but good fun. 36/36 with the box. Used VF with a few minor creases.	£8
824	Hausser	1910	Flower Quartet An attractively produced game from Germany on good quality glazed card (larger than playing cards, 65x105mm) with 12 sets of 4 flower cards, beautifully illustrated. The names of the flowers in German, French and English. 48/48 with original box. Good VF	£28
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 very good example.	£40
867	Jaques	1920	Counties of England, Third Series Eastern counties. 'A geographical game containing views of the chief towns in each county, their products and notable buildings etc.' A very good example from the 1920s of this very popular game. Complete with a good tuck case. 43/43 + key card and original box. Hardly used good VF/VF+	£26
884	Jaques	1930	Counties of Britain Reproductions of famous railway posters on the line served by LNER (London & North Eastern). The pictures are in orange tints. Similar structure to the game as Jaques Counties of England. A good complete set in excellent condition. 45/45 + key card + rules + box (outer case of faded colour). Much more scarce that the popular Counties of England.	£52
889	Kum-Bak/Gaymes	1935	Kargo The original edition of this very popular card golf game. Copyright by Gaymes in 1931, published by Kum-Bak and then by Pepys. This original edition has no green grass on the cards which was added later. In excellent condition. 53/53 + rules + leaflet + box.	£35
885	Kum-Bak Sports	1945	Jack of All Trades originally published by Kum-Bak (who also published Kargo, the golf game) subsequently published by Pepys and possibly printed by them but without the Pepys name. The game features 13 'tradesmen' which as well as ordinary trades include soldier, burglar and navvy. Various implements of the trade are then collected. Complete 52/52 with rules leaflet and box. All good condition, the box without damage.	£25
871	Maker ? USA printing	1910	Brer Rabbit A good example of this very scarce American game based on the Brer Rabbit stories which were widely told amongst the Negro people and collected by Joel Chandler Harris in the 19th century. The rules cards states 'By permission of the publisher of Books for the Bairns, the illustrations in the book Brer Rabbit have been made use of in this game.' Complete set of 39/39 with the rules card and the original telescopic box in very good condition. Good VF and clean for its age.	£65
868	Maker ? UK	1940	Striptease A fun card game, very risque at the time, with a set of stripper who gets down to 'nudie' behind a screen of course, 2 sets of other various characters opposed to such things determined to prosecute and a set of helpful people. Lawyers and antagonists abound from the days of strict censorship. Now very scarce. Good complete set. 52/52 + joker with rules and original box (one side repaired neatly). Cards are good VF.	£50
891	Maker ? UK	1940	Snap A fine example of war-time card games this Snap has amusing slightly cartoon style illustrations of military/war subjects. Cards are in sets of 4. Relatively cheap printing and card. Great fun and typical of the period. 48/48 + rules and box. Good VF with nice edges and corners.	£25
892	Maker ? UK	1940	Snap British manufacture 'Success' snap cards featuring a lovely assortment of animals as anthropomorphic characters engaged in a variety of occupations. 36/36 + rules and box. Colourful production on cheap card.	£12
870	Maker ? Austria	1975	Magic Roundabout This is a very scarce snap set from the popular TV series of the 1970s created by Serge Danot. Complete with 36/36 cards in 9 sets of 4 with the box. ther rules are on the back of the box which also confirms 36 cards in the set. (Another set exists with 44 cards in the set which also states the printing is in Austria, this box states 'Medallion Foreign' as the maker.) Cards VF, box without top flap, see illustration.	£30
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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)	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
873	Smith & Hallam	1955	Googly’ A rather wacky cricket game from the mid 1950s with very stylish and idiosyncratic illustrations (rather in the style of Emett, but not known who did the drawings). The rules booklet gives variations as well as full instructions for '3 day matches'. 97/98 (the missing card is a 3 like the one in the picture) + score sheets ( 2 used) + rules + box. All good VF or VF+. An scarce and good item.	£30
878	Sum-it Ltd	1935	Sum-It money game with sums of 'old' money and coins in shillings and pence, to make up the values. Reverse design in blue and white of a biplane flying over mountain peak. 60/60+rules+box (telescopic.) Good VF throughout and good box.	£24
1022	Sum-it Ltd	1935	Sum-It money game with sums of 'old' money and coins in shillings and pence, to make up the values. Reverse design in red and white of a biplane flying over mountain peak. 60/60+rules+box (telescopic.) Good VF throughout and excellent box in black and gold + rules. (Contents of a Sum-it set: Master x1, Sum-It x8, 10/- x2, 2/6 x12, 2/- x7, 1/- x8, then each of 11d to 1d x2 each = 60)	£24
119	Tree brand	1940	‘Convoy’ World War 2 shipping protection game. 49/49+rules+box(no top flap). VF+	£30
565	Tree brand	1940	‘Convoy’ World War 2 shipping protection game. 49/49 complete with rules and score cards, box is missing the top flap. VF	£32
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 telescopicbox is excellent making this a good item.	£38
872	Universal Publications	1940	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. 5 sets of 9 with 3 'universal' and 4 hazard cards. 52/52 with rules and box. Cards and box (slightly later tuck case) are VF.	£32
819	Victory Games	1948	Know Your Bible It might not look like the world's most interesting game but there are a few ideas in the instruction books for ways of playing with these question cards. Researching the answers could be quite challenging itself. There are 57 cards in the set because books like I and II Kings are combined, so 57 instead of 66. 57/57 complete with rules and box. All excellent condition.	£8
1025	Waddington	1960	Pit (Bull and Bear edition.) Originally made by Parker Bros in the USA this is a very lively commodity market game in which players try to dominate trade. There are 7 sets of agricultural commodity, each of 9 cards plus the Bull and the Bear card making 65 cards in total. Good complete set with rules and the original box (excellent condition). Cards lightly used VF	£18
883	Waddington	1950	Whot. A very popular game throughout the 1950s and 60s and still with many followers today. Excellent game for improving children's visual perception. It was issued in several different colours. This set has a 'blue' box and a blue/green back. The cards have been played with and are in VF condition. 54/54 + rules + box.	£12
869	Waddington	1963	Bob's Yr Uncle. A very popular nursery rhyme game first published in 1935 and updated in this re-issue of 1963 with a redesigned box. The cards are the same as the first edition. Complete set with 54/54 cards (8 sets of 6 + 3 uncles + 3 no longer acceptable 'nigger boys') with the rules and the original box. VF with some minor creasing.	£14
882	Jarvis Porter	1965	Top Dividend. A football pools game produced when millions of people did the football pools every week, long before the national lottery and on-line gaming etc.! The cards could be used to play various games or to fill in your pools coupon. Complete and very good. 54 cards + scorecards + rules + 80 counters + box. The box top os the only part not in really good condition.	£16
1056	G.W & Co.	1910	The Game of Sky. An unusual and complete set of this rare game which features the phases of the moon and other celestial things. It comes with a set of tin trays, the rules, the box and a deck of 56 cards. The box has seen better days, the cards are used VF, the trays are extraordinary with some tarnishing around the edges. Altogether a most interesting Edwardian parlour game and I would think fairly scarce when complete like this one.	£30
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
876	Whitman Publishing USA	1950	Animal Rummy A Peter Pan card game no 4120 by Whitman. 11 sets of rather cute little animals, 4 cards to a set. 44/44 (it is possible that sets exist with 48 cards as well, not sure) + rules + very good box. Cards VF+ (Illustration shows full size playing card for comparison.)	£6
564	Woolworth	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