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J. W. Spear & Sons Limited
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, paper, glass and wood
Measurements
Each card rectangle (min) - 10 mm (length); 5 mm (width), Each card rectangle (max) - 20 mm (length); 15 mm (width), Lotto card - 149 mm (width); 81 mm (height), Counters box - 70 mm (width); 27 mm (height); 44 mm (depth), Lotto box - 171 mm (width); 52 mm (height); 100 mm (depth), Each wooden and glass disc (min) - 13 mm (diameter), Each wooden and glass disc (max) - 18 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Bavaria
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 669611
Summary
A game of Lotto, in its original box. The box is in two parts and the lid, covered in red paper, has 'Lotto, Spears Games, JWS and S, Bavaria' printed in silver coloured ink. The instructions for playing the game are printed in black on a white label inside the lid. The game consists of eighteen rectangular cards, each printed in green and black with a random selection of fifteen numbers between 1 and 90; 88 (two missing - 11 and 69) wooden discs with the numbers 1 to 90 in relief and painted red, and a paper 'Checking Table' printed in black with the numbers 1 to 90 in circles, for covering with the discs as the numbers are called out. Also in the box is a small cardboard box in two parts, each part held together with staples at the corners, its lid printed in pink and black and reading 'Glass Counters'. Inside are eighteen circular glass discs, one red wooden disc, one small rectangle of paper and 112 small rectangles of cardboard (cut from a postcard). Total number of items is 243.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr and Mrs P. Andrews in January 1988.
Marks and inscriptions
On the back of the Checking Sheet: '5010'
Makers and roles
J. W. Spear & Sons Limited, maker