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Kargo or Card Golf

by KUM-BAK Sports Toys & Games

This famous card game was originally produced in the USA by Gaymes Ltd in 1931 and was introduced into the UK just after by Kum-Bak Sports Toys and Games Manufacturing Co. Ltd of London.
This edition of the game did not have the green horizontal stripe of the later Pepys series.

There are 53 cards in this pack:

1 Each of :	2 Each of:
Holed Approach (Joker)	Missed Putt
Pulled to Rough	Sunk Putt
Lost Ball	Bad Bunker
Out of Bounds	Bunker
Stymie
Stream	3 Each of:
Sliced to Rough	Drive
	Spoon
4 Each of:	Iron
Niblick	Brassie
Mashie-Niblick
	10 Cards of: Putt
8 Cards of: Mashie

The object of the game is to play a round of golf, hole for hole, stroke for stroke over any golf course.

The Rules of the Game

The Introduction to the Game

by Pepys (Castell Brothers)

By the mid 1930s the same game was now made by Pepys (Castell Brothers) who owned the world rates. This seems to imply that Kum-Bak was taken over by the Castell Brothers around 1935 and renamed "Pepys Stationery" (later Pepys Series).

This game produced by Pepys was a firm favourite for the next 30 years and quite a few editions were made, the first of which was the red deluxe box opposite. The padded box in the bottom picture opposite is the more common version.

Snap
by Kay

This 1930s snap game consists of 36 cards, 9sets of 4 cards. They depict the trades of the time.

Mr Black - The Sweep	Mr Chop - The Butcher
Mr Bacon - The Grocer	Mr Cod - The Fishmonger
Mr Knob - The Coalman	Mr Cotton - The Draper
Mr Trim - The Hairdresser	Mr Cream - The Milkman
Mr Bobby - The Policeman

Kingdoms of Europe
by John Jaques & Son

This 1870s/80s game is a variation of Jaques more popular game of Counties of England. Each set (Country) has a key card with a picture of the Country's flag and a number of cards of the principle cities of that Country.

45 cards in the game divided into 9 sets

Country	No. Cards	Towns
England (Key Card)	7	London Manchester Liverpool Birmingham Bristol Leeds
Scotland (Key Card)	5	KeEdinburgh Glasgow Aberdeen Dundee
Ireland (Key Card - this card has a Union Jack on it)	5	Dublin Belfast Cork Waterford
France (Key Card)	7	Paris Rouen Havre Lyons Marseilles Bordeaux
Spain (Key Card)	6	Madrid Seville Cadiz Barcelona Granada
Portugal (Key Card)	3	Lisbon Oporto
Belgium (Key Card)	4	Brussels Ghent Ostend
Holland (Key Card)	4	Amsterdam Rotterdam The Hague
Switzerland (Key Card)	4	Geneva Berne Lausanne

King Stork and Other Birds

This Victorian game consists of 36 cards divided into 6 suits of cards, consisting of Storks, Owls, Eagles, Geese, Crows and Parrots numbered from 1 - 6, each card has a small 4 line verse under the picture. Also included in this game are a number of double sided cardboard counters.

Krimo
by O.T. Storey

This 1930s detective game has 60 cards. There are 4 sets if cards coloured Red, Black, Green and Orange and numbered 1 - 10. There is a set of Low Trumps - Crimes numbered 1 - 8. Two sets of High Trumps, Alibi numbered 1, 3, 5, 8 & 10 and Not Guilty numbered 2, 4, 6, 7 7 9 AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST 2 Master Cards a Detective card and a Guilty card.