Card game
Castell Brothers Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
circa 1940 - circa 1950
Materials
Card
Measurements
Each card - 59 mm (width); 88 mm (length)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671200.2.3
Summary
The cards for a Peter Pan card game dating from the 1940s. There are 45 cards. The front of each card has a character or scene from the story of Peter Pan and a number printed in the top left corner in blue, red, green on a yellow background or white on a blue background. The back of each card is an image printed in red of Peter Pan playing a flute/pipe while standing on a rock with mountains and fairies around him. The card game is part of the Pepys Series published by Castell Brothers Ltd, London and Glasgow, Great Britain with permission from the original publishers of the Peter Pan card game Messrs. H. P. Gibson & Sons Ltd. Total number of items is 45.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Tyler in August 2010.
Makers and roles
Castell Brothers Ltd, engraver and publisher