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Metric-Aids
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
Each domino - 127 mm (length); 62 mm (width), Box - 148 mm (width); 90 mm (height); 204 mm (depth), Lid - 138 mm (width); 200 mm (height)
Place of origin
Evelyn Drive, Faircharm Industrial Estate, Medway House
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 664718
Summary
Twenty-eight wooden rectangular dominoes in a wooden box. Instead of pairs of numbers, these dominoes are printed with pairs of colours in orange, green, purple, blue and two shades of yellow. The other side of the dominoes are left blank. The wooden box has a red painted sliding lid. A paper label is pasted onto it with 'Metric-Aids. Four to Eight. Colour Dominoes. Medway House, Faircharm Industrial Estate, Evelyn Drive, Leicester, LE3 2BU' printed in black ink. The manufacturer's address is given at the bottom. The lid has a circular hole cut through it in order to slide the box open. Total number of items is 30.
Makers and roles
Metric-Aids , maker