Card game
John Jaques & Son Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1930
Materials
Card
Measurements
Box - 95 mm (height); 73 mm (width); 23 mm (depth), Each card - 95 mm (height); 63 mm (width))
Place of origin
Kirby Street Hatton Garden
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 657996
Summary
An educational card game entitled 'Jacques Popular Game Countries of Empire' in its original two part box, which was produced circa 1930. This box has a cover printed in blue, black and white which depicts a sea scene with a liner and and a cargo ship on one side and a map of the world on the other. The box contains a set of instructions, a card listing the key, forty cards showing the activities carried out in the different parts of the Empire and twelve cards naming the principal activities that take place within them. Total number of items is 56.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr David Franklin in September 1980.
Makers and roles
John Jaques & Son Ltd, engraver and publisher