Pictorial block
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and cardboard.
Measurements
Each block - 37 mm (length), Box - 300 mm (length); 184 mm (width); 60 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662847
Summary
A box containing a 20-piece pictorial wooden block puzzle. The blocks are covered in paper pictures which depict military scenes (soldiers, sailors and horses) printed in many colours. The blocks are well-used and worn at the edges. The box is mostly made of cardboard (the lid being a simple flap) with wooden ends which are nailed on. It is not the original box, as it has a label inside the lid and on one end showing it to have once contained Rowntrees Pastilles. The box is very tatty. Total number of items is 21.
Marks and inscriptions
Outside of the lid: '8 quarter' On the label on the end of the box: '8 quarter'