Untitled
by or after F. H. Hayres
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
c. 1880 - c. 1920
Materials
Cardboard
Measurements
370 mm (Height); 374 mm (Length)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 997105
Summary
A folding carboard gameboard, with a blue and gold label, labelled: `Halma` and marked: `F.H. Ayres. London`. The gameboard is checkered and divided into 16×16 squares. It would have been played with small checkers, counters, wooden or plastic cones or small chess pawns, black and white for the two-player game version and multi-coloured ones for the four-player version. Please see NT 997103 and NT 997104 for related items.
Full description
F H Ayres registered the game and name in 1888, it was also made by Jaques and Woolley and later Chad Valley. "Halma (from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning "jump") is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. His inspiration was the English game Hoppity which was devised in 1854. The game is played by two or four players seated at opposing corners of the board. The game is won by being first to transfer all of one's pieces from one's own camp into the camp in the opposing corner. For four-player games played in teams, the winner is the first team to race both sets of pieces into opposing camps. On each turn, a player either moves a single piece to an adjacent open square, or jumps over one or more pieces in sequence." Wikipedia
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009
Makers and roles
by or after F. H. Hayres, manufacturer