Card game
H.P. Gibson and Sons Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1920 - circa 1940
Materials
Cardboard and paper
Measurements
Box - 60 mm (width); 94 mm (height); 20 mm (depth), Each card - 57 mm (width); 89 mm (height), Instructions - 101mm (width); 151 mm (height)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668600
Summary
A card game of Snap in a rectangular cardboard box with a lid at the top (1920s or 1930s). The box contains a folded green paper list of the rules and fifty-two playing cards depicting printed red duotone illustrations of various nursery rhyme characters. The back of each card is a red star design. These are as follows; (four of each) 'Pat a Cake Baker's Man', 'Oranges and Lemons the Bells of St Clemans', 'This little Pig Went to Market', 'Old Mother Hubbard', 'Old King Cole was a Merry old Soul', 'Tom the Piper's Son', 'A Frog he Would a Wooing Go', 'Humpty Dumpty', 'Little Jack Horner', 'Little Bo Peep', 'There was an Old Woman who lived in a Shoe', 'Little Miss Muffet' and 'Little Tommy Tuck-ar sang for his Supp-ar', [sic]. Printed on the front and back of the box in red is 'A Favourite And Amusing Round Game, Snap, Little Jack Horner. Copyright Designs And Titles, Made In England, H.P. Gibson And Sons Ltd, London'. The price of the game, written in pencil on one side is '3/8'. Total number of items is 54.
Makers and roles
H.P. Gibson and Sons Ltd, maker