Table game
Fortnum and Mason Limited
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1950 - circa 1959
Materials
Cardboard, metal, wood and felt
Measurements
Box - 409 mm (length); 322 mm (width); 60 mm (height), Cloth - 1315 mm (length); 885 mm (width), Each horse - 91 mm (length), Each jump - 172 mm (width); 100 mm (height)
Place of origin
Piccadilly, 181
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 657917
Summary
A game entitled 'Good Going The Point to Point Race Game', possibly 1950s. On display Two fences, winning post, 6 horses and small box. A table game in its original box - Good Going The Point to point Race Game. The box, made from cardboard, has the lid covered in green paper with a pattern of horses and riders and a cream-brown label, printed in red, showing then title of the game. Inside the box are two inner boxes without lids, containing the game's components. These consist of eight metal model horses with jockeys, four horses are black and four brown and the jockeys have cream breeches and different colour jumpers, green, white, yellow, brown, red, pink, black and blue. There are twenty seven wooden sticks or whips in the above colours. These are in sets of four but one black, one brown, one white and two pink sticks are missing. There are five jumps with green painted rectangular bases, brown rubber hedges and a white pole with a red cloth flag at the right hand side. There are two other jumps, one with a higher green base and one with a brown fence, both with poles and flags. There is also a wooden circle fastened to a pole on a square green painted base. There is a green felt cloth, printed with a race course, numbers, the name of the game and trademark. This has had moth damage in the past and has been patched. A small cardboard box, with a label on the lid reading Good Going and the registration number 776194 contains 112 cards with black and white patterned backs and different numbers and colours of horse shoes on the faces. There is a card sheet, printed in blue with rules of the game and a folded sheet of paper with the rules for playing Tote inside and a photograph of the game on the front. The rules for the game are also printed inside the box lid. The box also contains a sheet of waxed paper. One side of the box lid is detached. Total number of items is 166.
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on the box lid: 'GOOD GOING TRADE MARK/ THE POINT TO POINT RACE GAME'
Makers and roles
Fortnum and Mason Limited, producer