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John Jaques & Son Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, mesh, metal, wood and plastic
Measurements
Each piece (min) - 160 mm (length); 70 mm (width); 96 mm (height), Each piece (max) - 475 mm (length); 190 mm (width); 355 mm (height), Each ping pong ball - 37 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Hatton Garden, 102
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 664029
Summary
A cardboard box containing a set for playing ping pong. The set comprises: a green mesh fabric net attached to wooden posts with metal clamps to attach to a table top; two rectangular metal frames which support the green mesh fabric; two pairs of wooden bats, of which one pair has a textured surface; and 23 ping pong balls, of which twelve are contained in a green cardboard box. There are also two sets of rules and a score chart. One set of rules is entitled 'Table Tennis Laws by W.H. Smith and Son'. The other is entitled 'Standard Edition, Rules and Directions for Playing Ping Pong or Gossima, J. Jaques and Son, Ltd'. and 'Hamley Bros'. In addition there are some miscellaneous items including a wing nut and part of the broken box. The lid of the box is illustrated with elves and a large spider's web. On the lid is written 'The new Table Game of Ping Pong or Gossima'. In the top right hand corner is written 'Causing immense excitement and healthy exercise and is the nearest approach that can be to the Game of Lawn Tennis as played out of doors. Total number of items is 37.
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on the inside of the lid: 'CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC./ BEWARE of cheap imitations, sufficiently disguised (and thereby rendered useless)/ to prevent action being taken. The best safeguard is to see that each box/ bears the Registered Trade Marks.../ 'PING-PONG'/ No.233177/ 'GOSSIMA,'/ No.157615/ and always ask for the Game by one or other of them, refusing any other Games/ offered as the same, or similar./ EVERY set also bears the Sole Publishers' names, J. JAQUES AND SON, Ltd., and HAMLEY BROS./ (jointly concerned)/ To be obtained at all the leading Sports and Games Dealers.'
Makers and roles
John Jaques & Son Ltd, maker