Card game
Tower Press
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1950 - circa 1959
Materials
Cardboard.
Measurements
Each card - 57 mm (width); 83 mm (height), Box - 60 mm (width); 85 mm (height); 10 mm (depth)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661926
Summary
The card game 'Beat your Neighbours' in its original box (1950s). On the back of each white card is a design printed in red of two houses with people waving from upstairs windows at each other and the words 'Beat you Neighbours'. The fronts feature nine sets of four identical images. Six have images of people engaged in activities, labelled, e.g. 'Peter the Postman', 'Charles the Clerk'. The other three sets are of cards which read 'Put 1', 'Put 2' or 'Put 3' with an image of houses. The box is folded from a single piece of thin cardboard and colour-printed on a blue background with an image of people in houses waving to each other, and the words 'Beat your Neighbours'. The ends of the box tuck in to secure the cards inside. The box is intact but quite dog-eared. Total number of items is 36.
Makers and roles
Tower Press, maker