Card game
John Jaques & Son Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Measurements
Box - 100 mm (length); 71 mm (width)
Place of origin
Kirby Street, 15-21, Hatton Garden
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665791
Summary
A card game entitled 'Hide and Seek with the Kings and Queens of England' (circa 1880). Some of the cards have colour illustrations of English Kings and Queens. Beneath the illustration are a few details relating to the reign of the monarch. Other cards have the names of individuals or details of events associated with the reign of a particular English monarch. Each of the cards have a plain pink back. There is a set of printed instructions included in the cardboard box with a sliding lid. The front of the box lid is decorated with a colour image of a Queen in profile holding a sceptre in her left hand and to her left, three children in front of a curtain. Total number of items is 87.
Marks and inscriptions
On a label on the box lid: 'A GAME OF/ HIDE AND SEEK/ WITH THE/ KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND/ (SERIES II)/ LONDON JAQUES AND SON. HATTON GARDEN'
Makers and roles
John Jaques & Son Ltd, engraver and publisher