Card game
Parker Brothers
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1920
Materials
Card and paper
Measurements
Each card - 88 mm (length), Box - 99 mm (length); 137 mm (width)
Place of origin
Lovell's, 11
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665783
Summary
The card game 'Pit', presumably based around the Stock Exchange, consisting of cards, an instruction leaflet and the box with a lid (circa 1920). The cards are for seven commodities - corn, oats, barley, hops, rye, cotton and wheat. There are nine cards for each commodity, except for cotton and wheat for which there are only eight. There is also one bear card and one bull card. The commodity cards have an illustration of a stock exchange in blue, and the bull and bear cards have illustrations of a bear and a bull printed in green. The backs of the cards are red with a white arabesque design. The box is covered in red paper with an inscription on the lid printed in gold reading 'The Great Game, Pit, Printed and Copy[righted] in Great Britain and U.S.A. Exciting Fun for Everyone, Parker [Brothers]'. Total number of items is 64.
Marks and inscriptions
On the inside base of the box: 'Wheat 8/ Cotton 8'
Makers and roles
Parker Brothers, maker