Miscellaneous items
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, cardboard, paper, silk, feather, mother of pearl, metal, foil, plastic and glass
Measurements
Box of droughts - 82 mm (length); 63 mm (width); 15 mm (depth), Box of cards - 74 mm (length); 55 mm (width); 15 mm (depth), Kaleidoscope - 347 mm (length); 76 mm (height), Box for kaleidoscope - 360 mm (length); 87 mm (width); 55 mm (height), Each card - 30 mm (width); 47 mm (height), Fan - 427 mm (height), Each draught piece - 17 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670759
Summary
A miniature set of draughts consisting of ten black pieces and thirteen white pieces contained in a red cardboard box with a label stuck on the lid depicting a draughts board and a game piece at each corner. A set of doll's size playing cards in a lidded cardboard box. A brown silk and brown feather fan with pierced wooden sticks. The sticks are held together with a metal hoop which has a mother of pearl 'button' on each side. Tied to the looped handle is a brown cord tassel. One of the sticks is broken and has pieces missing. A 'toblerone' shaped wooden kaleidoscope covered in orange paper with black, white and gold coloured zig-zag patterns. One end of the kaleidoscope tapers and incorporates a circular, cracked glass hole which you look through. The kaleidoscope widens towards the other end where there is a transparent plastic 'window', which reveals the different coloured pieces of screwed up foil (possibly sweet wrappings) that are inside. The kaleidoscope is in half of a rectangular cardboard box which has one end missing. Total number of items is 83.
Marks and inscriptions
On the label on the lid of the draughts box: 'DRAUGHTS' On the label on the lid of the draughts box: 'Made in Germany' On the lid of the playing cards box: 'THE/ Queen of Hearts/ Pack of Cards/ MANUFACTURED IN THE BRITISH ISLES' On two sides of the kaleidoscope box: 'Kaleidofix'