Pretty educational card game about Kings and Queens – consisting of 100 questions, 35 colored monarch cards, answer booklet and original paper counters. The last entry in the booklet is “Who did Victoria marry?”

Historical Amusements - Condition – Question cards – 4 are missing but have been replaced with very good copies, all very good - Monarch cards also very good / booklet complete – no damage / Box – slight splits at the edges (needs to be reglued), clean no damage

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1860s The Sovereigns of England, published by J. Betts. This dissected puzzle shows monarchs from William I to Victoria.

Sovereigns of England / Condition - Puzzle is very good - odd tiny nicks otherwise no damage / Original wooded box - very good
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This game ten sets each has one hand colored card - a character from the play and three plain cards each listing a characters from the play - The Game includes a title card which states "These games are approved of by the Bishop of London, and many of the most distinguished Instructors of Youth". ..

Condition Shakespeare Game - Complete / Cards - The hand colored cards are lovely the colors are vivid - the cards are undamaged but some are a little foxed / Rules - There is a photocopy of the rules / No box

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Multiplication Table in Rhyme, Part 1 - "being the first half of the table consisting of 96 cards forming 48 illustrations" In Original Wooden Box with a picture of two cards on the front.

This game consists of 96 cards (48 pairs) - Each has a multiplication and a rhyming couplet underneath - ie there is also a hand colored picture describing the rhyme.
Its aim is to teach multiplication tables in a different way. Players must collect both halves and the completed picture that should prompt the memory of the particular sum.

One of example here illustrates "6 times 5 are 30", "the coach is very dirty".

Part One covers the multiplication tables from 2x1 through 2x12 - up to 6x5 through 6x12
(however in order to make each Part I (2-6) and II (7-12) equal, the numbers were slightly manipulated ie there is 5x4 and 6x5 (as well as 4x5 and 5x6)

Multiplication - Condition - / Cards very good - light use only, but missing one card / Box - lid is a little scratched, base is missing one short side / Rules lacking (we have never seen any).

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c1860s Characters of Charles Dickens by Ogilvy
This game is a quartets game that involves collecting cards by novel
ie The Novel + three characters in the novel
Unusual with the original box


Condition - Characters of Charles Dickens - Complete / Cards - very good/unused - slightly foxed / Rules on a card / outer box split on two long sides - both boxes have been repaired with tape that has dropped off

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Architectural Dominoes -produced by D Oglivy
The game consists of cards in the original wooden box with sliding lid.
The ends of the cards are decorated with architectural columns colored in pink, green, purple, blue, and yellow and are illustrated with black and white scenes of children playing a variety of games.
We understand that there were two ways of playing the game one is like dominoes where the player must match column types and one is a suit type game where each player must collect all the cards for one column type in order to win. 
The vendor's label on the back is for
WM Griffiths Chymist and Stationer (stet) ABERAYRON
Aberayron had Regency Style buildings built around the harbour

Condition - Architectural Dominoes / Cards (59/60) (5 sets of 12 cards ) plus 5/5 column cards, all in very good condition / Rules lacking / Box - Wooden box with sliding lid in very good condition
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A very basic set of Hand Drawn Happy Families, consisting of 22 different familes.
The names are interesting in that they are slightly different than normal ie
Snuff - The Tobaccanist / Amen - The Clerk / Yard Measure - The Draper / Tallow - The Chandler / Dearly Beloved - The Parson
Much used and enjoyed by the thumb prints on them.

Happy Famillies - Condition / There are 22 sets with two card that looks like replacement (slightly different size and thickness - same hand writing) very grubby / In a hand made box that was probably original, - hand sewn to form a box (without a lid, split on one side (cotton undone) )
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Pigs in Clover
In early 1889 Crandall invented a new game that swept the country (USA) simply called "Pigs in Clover". This was among the first or at least the most popular ball-in-a-maze puzzle in America. This is dated 1889 version.

Pigs in Clover - Condition - Condition is very good - some foxing but no damage. Diameter approx 7.5 inches

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This is a set collecting game
based on the works of Florence and Bertha Upton
The art work is lovely and the characters as from the books

Game of Golliwog - complete - cards very good / rules - photcopy / box - outer cover missing one narrow side - inner box good
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The Silver Bullet - Or The Road To Berlin - WW1 Dexterity Puzzle/Game
A large, decorative, glazed, wooden-framed dexterity puzzle from the World War One. The object being to try to get the ball-bearing passed all of the German fortresses and into the city of Berlin.
Manufactured by R.Farmer and Son, circa 1916

Condition

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A game with the aim of teaching children the order of the ranks in the four services.- other games such as Snap, Old Maid and Rummy can be played with the cards

Condition- Complete - Cards / Box / Rules all in very good condition

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C1924 Electric Mah Jong - De La Rue - This was printed for Western Electricity Company for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition.
It is a card version of the popular Mah Jong Game but with suits of Radio. Cables and Phones

Mah Jong - Condition / complete / cards are mint - strong gold edges / Electrical Mah Jong Box - very good in original plain card box as protection / Rules - very good
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War Planes - c1940s - A card game for Aircraft Spotters.
There are five views of each of 13 British and German aircraft 52
and extra cards 6 with swatick on them and 7 with RAF symbols

War Planes - Condition / cards are complete and mint / original rules unused / box unused.
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