Tile game
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1946
Materials
painted wood
Measurements
Each Domino - 25 mm (Width) x 5 mm (Depth); 48 mm (Length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672000
Summary
A set of wooden hand painted dominoes containing 45 individual pieces. Instead of numbers on their faces as an ordinary set there are pictures. These are as follows: a green bell, a church spire, a white flower, a red/white shield, a notated music score, a stage, a red shore, a bunch of grapes, and a blue mountain goat. Each of these different symbols have a double domino. Some have written words on the back. For example 3 have arrows, 2 have fast, 1 says slow, 1 has very slow, 1 says stop,1 has Notts County and 1 has Nottingham Forrest.
Provenance
Gift to the National Trust Museum of Childhood by Mike Edwards in 2017. The dominoes were bought by the donors brother whilst he was on National Service in Austria in 1946/1947. This was the time when the Americans, British and Russians were occupying Austria and the Austrians made items to sell to the soldiers to earn money. There is no way of knowing for certain but it is possible that these dominoes are such items.