Card game
W.H. Storey and Co Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1930 - circa 1939
Materials
Card, paper and printing ink
Measurements
Each card - 89 mm (length), Box - 98 mm (length)
Place of origin
Croydon
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 657967
Summary
A card game, 'WHOT', consisting of fifty four cards, an instruction booklet, a box with attached lid and a broken WHOT leaflet (1930s). This game is still being produced. The suites are triangles, crosses, circles and squares. The cards are printed in dark blue with a dark blue, red and white design on the back incorporating the name WHOT. The instruction booklet consists of several pages stapled inside a dark blue card cover. The publisher's name is printed on the back cover. The box is covered in dark blue paper with an inscription printed in gold coloured ink on the front,''WHOT', A Game For Everyone'. The lid is attached to the box with a white fabric tape. Inside the lid printed in red ink is: 'Watson And Sons, London Bazaar Stores, [134], 135, 136, High Street, Winchester'. There is a circular price label with red scalloped edges attached to the back of the box with the handwritten price, 2/6. The leglet, a plastic band with two metal clips inscribed WHOT, has degraded and broken into many pieces. The metal clips are corroding. Total number of items is 57.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr Lawrence Bray in October 1978.
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on the back of the box: '2/6'
Makers and roles
W.H. Storey and Co Ltd, engraver and publisher