Table game
John Jaques & Son Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1800 - circa 1899
Materials
Cardboard, wood and bone
Measurements
Each rule and faces card - 108 mm (width); 142 mm (height), Pool for counters - 38 mm (height); 53 mm (diameter), Boxwood tube - 98 mm (height), Spherical die - 35 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Hatton Garden, 102
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670749
Summary
A table game called 'Faces' consisting of two rectangular pieces of card, each with a colour illustration of a man's blank face. (19th century). There are nine eyes, three noses, two mouths and one ear. Each of these individual features can be placed, in turn, on the face. There is a set of rules printed on a rectangular piece of card. There is a cylindrical boxwood tube with a hole near the bottom. A spherical wooden die which is covered with recessed red, white and black circles is placed in the tube where it rolls out of the hole near the bottom. There is a boxwood pool for the twenty four coloured counters. Some of the counters may be ivory or bone. There is also an ordinary dice which may, or may not, be part of this game. Total number of items is 46.
Marks and inscriptions
On the set of rules card: 'Published and Sold Wholesale by JAQUES and SON, 102, Hatton/ Garden, London, to be had at all Fancy Repositories.'
Makers and roles
John Jaques & Son Ltd, maker