Board game
John Jaques & Son Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, cardboard and metal
Measurements
Box - 140 mm (length); 74 mm (width), Board - 405 mm (width); 610 mm (height), Die shaker - 65 mm (height); 33 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Hatton Garden, 102
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 657907
Summary
A board game entitled 'The Amusing Game of Walk Up' consisting of a colour printed illustration of the interior of a house and the different staircases which rise up the different floors. Each of the steps is numbered. There are also household objects inside circles which contain numbers. The illustration is pasted onto a board which folds into four pieces. There is a dice and dice shaker; three haberdasher's pins (one with a white head, two with blue heads); a set of rules and ten tickets with illustrations of boxes of matches or keys. A lidded box houses the pins, dice shaker, dice and set of rules. The lid of the box is decorated with a colour illustration of different coloured pins walking up a green staircase. Total number of items is 19.
Makers and roles
John Jaques & Son Ltd, engraver and publisher