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Invicta Plastics Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic, cardboard and metal
Measurements
Box - 320 mm (length); 150 mm (width); 33 mm (height), Peg board - 244 mm (length); 128 mm (width), Peg board cover - 64 mm (length), Each peg (min) - 8 mm (length), Each peg (max) – 17 mm (length), Tobacco tin - 110 mm (length); 82 mm (width); 30 mm (height)
Place of origin
Leicester
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670208
Summary
A 'Mastermind' game in its original box, consisting of a peg board and many coloured pegs. The box, in two halves, is made from folded white cardboard colour-printed on the lid with the word 'Mastermind' on the top and all four sides, a photo of the game on the sides, and a photograph of a seated bearded man and a standing woman on the top. The peg board is made from moulded brown rigid plastic which, in addition to the holes, has moulded borders round each section on the board, i.e. the rows of four large holes, the groups of four smaller holes alongside, and the area used for the row to be guessed at one end. There is another piece of brown moulded plastic to use as a cover to hide this area. There are eighty six large, coloured, mushroom-shaped pegs: thirteen red, fourteen green, fourteen blue, seventeen white, eighteen yellow and ten black; and thirty four smaller, flat-topped pegs: seventeen each of black and white. These are kept in a 'St. Bruno' tobacco tin. Total number of items is 126.
Makers and roles
Invicta Plastics Ltd, maker