Game Collection (#62)

Batgers Christmas crackers golf game
An ingenious game of golf from a Christmas cracker box

Oompa-pa-party crackers
Box design for childrens party Christmas crackers from the 1960s featuring a bear dressed as a soldier, an excitable French Horn playing bird and a grumpy cat

Musical Croquet / W H Robinson
Charming additions to the game of Croquet - bells on the hoops and musical horns on the mallets. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Revolving table seat / W H Robinson
Post War Britain. When each of these card players experiences a dull moment in their game, they can swivel on their revolving seat

Legless bridge table / W H Robinson
Post War Britain - Social reform. A legless bridge table, kept in place instead by four balloons, hovers, allowing a more intimate game to be played

Playing boules in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
People playing boules in Government Gardens, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. The building in the background is the Blue Baths, an historic centre built in 1933 combining a health spa

Men playing tennis at Crosslands House
Two men taking part in a doubles tennis match at Crosslands House

Two French Ladies playing Croquet

Lion stalking a herd of Zebra
A Lion stalking a herd of Zebra. Oil painting by Raymond Sheppard

Brother and sister facing each otherm, kneeling on cushions. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Boy playing cats cradle
Boy in rocking chair playing cats cradle with wool. Pen & Ink (with watercolour wash) drawing by Raymond Sheppard

The Battle by George Studdy
Two small boys, watched by their pet dog and various toys, play soldiers. Each carries a sword and shields marked " hero"

Trained Peregrine Falcon hunting
A Trained Peregrine Falcon hunting grouse. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Mother and two daughters of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A mother and her two daughters pose for their photograph. Each girl has a hoop and stick, a popular game at the time. They are from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia

Little girl of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A little girl in a garden or back yard with her hoop and stick, a popular game at the time. She is from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia, now in Czechoslovakia

Tableau for Trente & Quarante
A description of the playing board and full rules for the populare French game of Trente & Quarante favoured by gamers at the Monte Carlo casinos and in Nice

German Children playing War Games during WW1
German Card depicting children playing with model soldiers, balloon and flag in representation of a proclamation of the victorious events of Germany (and their allies)

Playing Chess in Algeria
Four Algerian men playing chess in a shady section of a secluded courtyard

Pelota played at Saint Jean de Luz
The Basque game of Pelota played in front of a large crowd at Saint Jean de Luz, France. Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan

Camp-Fire concert at a reserve in South Africa
A Camp-fire concert in a big game reserve in South Africa. A scene in the Kruger National Park, as tourists and rangers surround a camp fire and enjoy some musical entertainment

Korean Archers - Keijo (Seoul)
The Bowing Game of Chosen - Korean Archers of Keijo (Seoul), in Chosen Province practising traditional archery

Colonial gent plays tennis, Iran
A colonial gentleman standing in a hard tennis court, Bushire (Bushehr), on the south west coast of Iran. At the time of this photograph the city had been under British occupation for five years

Cricket: The Surrey Eleven
The men of Surrey Cricket club stand infront of a tent, holding cricket bats and a ball, ready for action

An Attack in the Rear
A mischievous young boy hides behind a pillar waiting to throw the snowballs that hes carrying at the next unsuspecting passer-by

Little Games for the Holidays - Pitching Poached Egg for Ter
Another ridiculous and rather messy game from the imagination of William Heath Robinson showing territorial army officers throwing poached eggs at a slice of toast skewered by a toasting fork

Little Games for the Holidays - Bouncing the Beechum
A curious game invented by Heath Robinson whereby a tiny ball or beechum is sprung into the air by the hefty use of a mallet while a number of public school boys wait to catch it with nets poised

Whos Afraid by Ethel Parkinson
Two children, wrapped up in eskimo or Inuit style coats and hats play a pleasant game of see saw with a friendly Polar Bear

Poster advertising South African game reserves
Poster advertising South Africa and its game reserves, showing an old engraving of an elephant compared with the real thing

A gambling den in Spain
A large group of Spaniards sit round a table. All eyes are on the dealer as he turns the next card, waiting to see if they will win or lose

Edward VII shooting at Windsor
King Edward VII out shooting at Windsor

Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
A view of Hall Barn in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, at the time of the photograph the home of Lord Burnham -- Sir Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baronet, owner of the Daily Telegraph

Man puzzling over a game of draughts
A man puzzling over a game of draughts, which he appears to be playing solo. He holds a long churchwarden pipe in his mouth. Date: early 20th century

Carnival games
A group of young boys and men throw balls, aiming them at the heads of the poor men who have the unlucky job of acting as the targets

In and Out the Window
A group of nice young girls play In and Out the Window together

Batgers Masks and Animals Luggage label
Rather odd scene featuring an adult in a sinister party mask trying to lasso a group of children in fancy dress masks and head dresses at a party

Children at a party
Two children play a game of musical hats at a party

Fanning the Kipper game
A girl enjoying herself playing fanning the kipper whereby a fish fashioned from tissue is blown along a course using a fan

A game of hidden celebrities
A pair of party goers play a game of hidden celebrities where the name of a famous person is pinned to anothers back and everyone must guess who they are

Paper Bag Race party game
A guest at a party takes part in a paper bag race game where two teams must sit on rows of chairs, and blow up a bag and pop it after racing around the line once, before it is the next persons turn

Blowing the Feather
Party guests play a game of Blowing the Feather where they all try their best to keep a feather afloat in the air

Nose and Matchbox Race
A boy and girl have fun playing a party game where a matchbox is passed from nose to nose as quickly as possible

Party Game - identifying by smell
A boy in an Eton style suit takes a sniff at assorted muslin bags containing solids that must be identified by smell

Orange and spoon race
A variation on an egg and spoon race where party guests must transport an orange via a teaspoon into a basket at the end of the room

Playing boules in Paris
A group of men, many in top hats, gather round to watch those playing boules on the Boulevard d Enfer in Paris

Boys Club evening activities, Jack Straws 1937
Six boys from a Boys Club sit around a table for a game of what could be Jack Straws or Spillikins

Boys Club evening activities, Chess, March 1929
Two boys sit for a game of chess. Eight spectators look on

Boys club snooker game, February 1930
A group of seventeen boys cram around a snooker table during an evening game at a Boys Club

Boys club snooker game, 1932
Seven boys play a game of snooker during an evening at a Boys Club

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