Board game
Chad Valley
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1920 - circa 1929
Materials
Card, wood and plastic
Measurements
Box - 307 mm (length); 219 mm (width); 39 mm (depth), Die - 6 mm (width); 6 mm (height), Shaker - 47 mm (height), Each counter (min) - 16 mm (diameter), Each counter (max) - 47 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Harbourne
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 657919
Summary
A board game with both Snakes and ladders and Ludo inside (1920s). A rectangular cardboard box. On the front printed in white and edged with blue reads 'Ludo'. The image printed on the front is of two Turkish or Indian men sitting down playing a board game, behind them is water and an Islamic type building. On the inside of the lid, printed in black ink in English and French, are the rules for playing Ludo. The box contains two boardgames, both of them have a red backing and have been folded in half. On the front of one is a Ludo board and the other has a Snakes and Ladders board on it. Also contained within the box are five circular wooden counters, one is green, one blue, one yellow, one purple and one white. Along with these is a purple-pink wooden shaker. There is also a very small which dice and a spinner. The spinner is a cardboard circle with six sections numbered one to six on it. On this circle is a red arrow that spins around and lands on one of the numbers. Contained in a grease proof paper bag are seventeen plastic counters. There are five blue counters and four each of red, white and green. Total number of items is 30.
Marks and inscriptions
On the bottom front of the boardgame: 'THE CHAD VALLEY GAMES MADE AT HARBORNE ENGLAND'
Makers and roles
Chad Valley, maker