MOTHER GOOSE'S ATTIC - Vintage Card Games

ADD'EM
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This is a 1930's card game by Mansell's, London called ADD'EM, the game that counts, it has 52 cards with rules in English, French & Spanish. The Rules of the Game - English

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ALIBI
by Tor productions Ltd

This 1930s game is for 2 - 4 players and consists of 51 cards, 4 sets each of 12 cards - CRIME, PROCECUTION, DEFENCE each of these sets is numbered 1 - 12 and ALIBI which is un-numbered. The last ALIBI set is made up of 6 cards called ALIBI PROVED and 6 cards ALIBI NOT PROVED. There is also 1 card marked PRISONER and 2 SURPRISE WITNESS cards (one numbered 15 and the other 20).The players are divided into 2 teams, for the PROCECUTION
and for the DEFENCE. Which ever side gains its stack of 6 ALIBI cards wins the game.

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Alice in Wonderland games

1) De la Rue Alice c.1880
48 cards, 16 sets of 3.
This pack featured pictures based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations from the books, that were redrawn by Edith Thomson.

2)Carreras Cigarette cards 1930
They produced two different sized packs of cards but the game used the same pictures and the yare played exactly the same as the De la Rue original.

Pepys/Disney Alice 1952
44 cards. 8 sets of 5, plus 2 each of the White Rabbit and Cheshire Cat. When the cards are laid out in order, the pictures that are based on Disney's cartoon version of the story, illustrate Alice's adventures.

4) Alice in Wonderland Game
Pepys/Gibson 1980 reprint of the original De la Rue set but with only 42 cards, 14 sets of 3. In a different numerical order but the same illustrations using a slightly different layout.

For an in depth description and copies of the rules look at our article Alice in Wonderland Card Games - Click Here

The Rules of the Game - By Thomas De La Rue

The Rules of the Game by Disney

The Rules of the Game by Gibson

American Eagle
Educational Series - American History
by Parker Brothers, Salem Mass

This game by Parker Brothers was produced around 1900 and consists of 48 cards. It takes the form of a question and answer game, with the answer printed in bold lettering above the question.

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Andy Pandy Snap
by Ariel Productions Ltd

This card game was produced by Ariel Productions Ltd in the 1950s and features the famous UK puppet Andy Pandy, one of the stars of the BBC children's "Watch With Mother" series throughout most of the 1950s/70s. In 2002 Cosgrove Hall made a modern version of Andy Pandy without strings using stop motion filming.

There are 48 cards in the pack (8 set of 6 cards in each) featuring Andy Pandy, Rag Doll Looby Loo, Teddy and the fluffy White Kitten in various scenes.

The inspiration for the original Andy Pandy was Paul Atterbury (Antiques Roadshow (UK) expert) whose mother Audrey, was the show’s puppeteer.

Animal Grab
by various manufacturers

All the games mentioned below have 52 cards (13 sets of 4 identical cards) in the pack and are all played by the same rules. The game is played like a form of snap, but instead of shouting SNAP! you have to make the noise of the animal.

1) by Thomas De La Rue Ltd.

This game was produced by Thomas De La Rue Ltd around 1900 differs from the other 2 sets mentioned here because the cards are printed in full colour.

2) by The St. Michael's Juvenile Card Games

This game was produced for The St. Michael's Juvenile Card Games around 1910 and was printed in red and black inks. 3) by H. P. Gibson & Sons Ltd

This game is an "HPG" Series game produced by H. P. Gibson & Sons Ltd probably in the 1930s.Sinilar to the game mentioned above it was printed in red and black inks.

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The Animals Picnic

This litho print game from the late 19th or early 20th century has 39 individually numbered cards which when put in the right sequence makes the picture below.

It is advertised on the box as " A Picture & Game Combined".

Animal Rummy
by Whitman Publishing Co.

This typical 1950s designed game has 44 cards (4 of each of 11 different animals). Each set is numbered 1 - 4, the number being preceded by the first letter of the name of the animal. eg. the Kangaroo cards are numbered K1, K2, K3 & K4.

The game is played like normal rummy, by making up sets.

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Askim
by Chad Valley

This Chad Valley game has 40 cards, 5 sets of 8. With each set having a different coloured band top & bottom. 4 of the cards in the set are Questions and the other 4 are Answers.

The object of the game is to be the first player to get rid of all their cards.

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Astronaut
by Pepys (Castell Brothers Ltd)

This early 1960s game by Pepys is based on the Moon Race. It has 44 cards with great illustrations of the spacecraft of the day including the Sputnik, Telstar, Mercury and Vostok capsules. There are also pictures of what they thought a moon landing would be like.

The game is for 2 – 4 people and has 44 cards:

28 Stage Cards (4 sets of 7 numbered)
4 substitute Stage cards (marked Sub)
2 Reserve Astronaut cards (Res)
2 Ill cards
3 Delay cards
5 General Interest cards

The object of the game is to collect Stage cards and land on the Moon (stage 7).

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Auctioneer
by "Glevum" (Roberts Brothers of Gloucester)

The "Auctioneer" Card Game was produced by "Glevum" (Roberts Brothers of Gloucester) in 1916 (the date on the card coins)There are 40 cards, a number of card coins (shilling, sixpence and three pence denominations - old pre-decimal UK money) and a small wooden gavel.

The object of the game is to make as many pairs as possible, thus Bull and Cow; Chair and Table etc. When a pair is obtained the cards must be placed aside and are considered of the value of 5 shillings.

Deal the cards around. Share out equally the Coinage counters. (If only a few are playing, instead of using all the coins fix a definite amount). One of the players picks up the gavel and becomes the auctioneer, they puts up for sale one of the articles represented on the cards, the only indication that the auctioneer must give, is the number of legs the item has, not naming the article itself and so on. When the card is sold the purchaser then becomes the Auctioneer.

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The Auction Game
by Henry Reason

This game is played in the same manner as a sale by Auction, the cards being bought and sold with counters.

The pack consists of 24 pairs of cards, each card representing one half of an article.

The cards are divided into 3 sections - Vegetable, Animal or Mineral. The Mineral section is anything made of metal, the Animal section is self explanatory and the Vegetable section is everything else. This means that an Armchair comes under the heading of Vegetable.

The player who obtains the greatest number of pairs of cards representing complete articles, is the winner.

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Aviation
by Aviation Game Co. Pittsburg, PA

This game was copyrighted in 1911 by L S Thomson and so is one of the first, (if not the first), card games featuring modes of aviation transport.
This pack consists of 46 with red backed cards which are 4 sets of 11 cards each:
Monoplane
Biplane
Balloon
Dirigible
+ A (presumably for Airplane) and B (for Balloon) cards and a further 21 Blue backed consequence cards making 67 cards in total