Table game
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper and card
Measurements
114 mm (length); 85 mm (width); 42 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670731
Summary
A table game (Word Making and Word Taking) in a black cardboard box with a blue, red and gold coloured label. The label is printed with a picture of a family playing the game and 'The New Pastime Field's Copyright, Word-Making And Word-Taking, Innocent! Instructive! Amusing! Full Instructions'. The lid and base of the box have been repaired with brown sticky tape which has ripped in places. Inside are 186 small, square cardboard tiles, one side yellow and one side black. On the yellow side of each tile is printed, in black, a letter of the alphabet. There are no instructions. Total number of items is 188.
Marks and inscriptions
Inside the lid of the box: 'W.Thirb[e]e'