MOTHER GOOSE'S ATTIC - Vintage Card Games

Lecardo
by Lecardo, 77 Barrack Road Christchurch

Legend Dominoes
by C. W. Faulkner & Co.

This game is in actual fact 2 games in one. The reverse side of the beautifully illustrated cards forms a complete set of dominoes.

The 28 large cards and 4 small cards are divided into 6 sets which are stories from the Brothers Grimm collection:

Little Red cap
Little Snow White
Cinderella
Little Brother and Sister
Hanzel and Gretel
Brier Rose

The title of the set is printed at the top an incident in the story is at the foot of each card.

The firm of Hildesheimer & Faulkner: London, were publishers of books, postcards & Christmas cards
(from 1877 - 1885) which were mostly printed in Germany and Austria. In 1885 their partnership ended with
Faulkner taking over the business entirely. He changed the company name in the 1890’s, and it became a
Limited company in 1905.

Lenny the Lion’s Happy Families
by Ariel

This game was produced in 1955 and has 48 cards, 12 sets of 4 cards. The familes are:
Mr Lenny Lion
Mr Zeke the Zebra
Mr Crock the Crocodile
Mr Chirp the Chimp
Mr Marco Polo the Parrot
Mr Jumbo Elephant
Mr Yukon the Toucan
Mr Doe the Deer
Mr Hilary Hippo
Mr Jerramy Giraffe
Mr Pelman the Pelican
Mr Mickey Finn (named after Terry Hall's first ventriloquest dummy).

Lenny the Lion’s Snap
by Ariel

This game has 48 cards, 12 sets of 4 cards and shows Lenny and his friends enjoying themselves.

Lenny the Lion was the created in 1954 by ventriloquist Terry Hall and was one of the first non-human
dummies. They first appeared in the BBC television variety show Dress Rehearsal in 1956 and had their own
series The Lenny the Lion Show from 1957 – 1960 as well as Lenny's Den in 1959 to 1961, and Pops and
Lenny in 1962 to 1963. In 1958 they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in the USA. Terry Hall and Lenny
were regular visitors to the UK hit childrens show Crackerjack from 1977 to 1980 as well as running an
educational programme Reading With Lenny the Lion. As well as appearing on television they continued
to give live variety performances.

The Birn Brothers were a publishing firm specialising in fine art publications and story books for the lower end of
the market from the early 1900s through to the 1960s. As many publishers of their time they also dabbled in
card and board games using the name Ariel Productions Ltd.

Lexicon
by Waddingtons

Lexicon was probably the best known of the spelling card games of the 1930s. It was launched in 1933 in a tuck
box for 1/9d per pack, but due to poor intital sales the game was repackaged in tho te book boxes for 2/6d and
sales boomed with up to 1000 packs per week being sold.

This was more than likely due to the fact that The News Chronicle Newspaper offered a “Lexicon Competition”
with the top prize being £100 (this was in the the middle of the greatest economic depression of the 20th century
and if you were lucky to have a job the average weekly wage was about £1.10s [£1.50] ). The only snag was
that to enter you had to buy a pack of Lexicon with the special entry form inside. The closing date for the
competion was 21st February1934.

There have been many editions of this game since then and it is manufactured today by Top Cards.

Lexicon has 52 cards printed with letters of the alphabet and score values. The aim of the game is to make and
then change words. As well as the cards there were also 1 or 2 rule books. The red covered booklet is the
main rules and the blue booklet called "New Games to be played with Lexicon Cards" has some game variations
that can be played with the cards.

License to Kill
by Eon Productions Limited and Glidrose Productions Limited
for Golden Wonder

This game was produced in 1967 by Eon Productions (the makers of the James Bond films) as a promotional gift
for Golden Wonder crisps, the game also coencided with the 1967 launch of the Bond firm "You Only Live Twice".

The object of thegame is that each player is given an assignment file which outlines the 4 Agents he must
capture (the details on this file are not divulged to the other players until the end of the game). Using the pack
of 52 cards, the players try to capture each of the Agents listed in their assignment file

Lincard
by J. Wolf, Croydon

The game of Lincard is unusual in that it has the 4 suites of cards from Ace to Queen (48 cards) as usual but it
only has one King. When complete this game forms a 7 by 7 square with the king as the hub in the middle. The
rest of the cards can be connected to the King following their order within the set or sideways by cards with
the matching symbol, each way scoring differently. There are several variations to the game and can be played
with 1 to 8 players.

Lindy the New Flying Game
by Parker Brothers Inc.

This game was produced by Parker Brothers in 1927 to commemorate Charles Lindbergh's historic solo air
crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. There are 99 cards in the set: .
15 Hop Off
3 Descends in Parachute
2 Delivers Mail
10 - 200 Miles
4 Head Wind
8 New Plane
8 Gasoline
10 – 300 Miles
5 Favorable Wind
3 Lands for Gasoline
19 – 100 Miles
12 – 500 Miles

At the same time another game called The New Lindy Flying Game was invented by Paul K. Guillow and published
by his Nucraft Toys company. He was a former flier in the US Navy who also made gliders and models. The
game's form fitting box included 75 cards:

39 mileage,
10 take off,
10 weather,
15 hazards incluinge forced landing, storm, fog, engine trouble, etc.
and 1 Lucky Lindy

Nucraft sued Parker Bros who won the lawsuite. This caused the Nucraft game to have a far more limited
production as the company closed in 1928.

Both these games are similar to the 1911 game Aviation (see the listing in the A section of this resorce).

Little Grey Rabbit
by Pepys (Castell Brothers)

This 1950s game by Pepys is based on the Little Grey Rabbit books by Alison Uttley with the watercolour
illustrations by Margaret Tempest, reproduced in full colour. Little Grey Rabbit, Fuzzypeg, Speckledy Hen,
Moldy Warp and the others feature in this game.

The last Cassell Brothers "Pepys series" of this game was the 3rd edition produced in the early 1970s

Since the mid 1980s Gibsons games have been producing the "Pepys Series" and in the last few years they have re-produced this game.

Alison Uttley wrote over 100 books, including the Little Grey Rabbit series, just after her husband died in 1930
she began writing to support herself and her son. She died in 1976 aged 92.

This game was produced by the Thomas De la Rue company in the early 1930s and shows fifty of the
London Underground stations (and nearby famous buildings including the Oval cricket ground and the
Arsenal football stadium, Highbury) of the day, some of which have been closed since the Second World War.
Any number of players can play and the pack consists of seventy two cards: 50 Station cards, 6 Season Tickets
& 16 Junction cards.

The object of the game is to go LOBO by making up a hand of two or more completed journeys, either exposed
on the table or held unexposed in the hand. A completed journey consists of a junction card together with one of
the stations shown above the junction card and one shown below it.

Unfortunately the unique design of the box opening mechanism of the First Edition resulted in many of these
boxes being damaged, so in 1935 a second version was produced in a conventional padded box.

The London Post
by John Jaques & Sons

This game of 64 cards was produced by J Jaques & Son around 1880. It is developed around the London
postal districts and the distinctive public buldings within the different districts.

Although I haven't got a copy of the rules at this present time I should think it was played the same way as
Jaques more well known game of "Counties of England".

The 3 largest districts depicted are the East Central (E.C.) district which covers the City of London (the banking
and monetry heart of London); West Central (W.C) which at the time had many theatres & museums and
South-Western (S.W) which is Westminster and the goverment ofices.

This game can be fairly accurately dated because on the "Foreign Office" card for the South-Western
district it states that the building was designed by the "late Sir (George) Gilbert Scott" who was known to have
died in 1878 and that the "New Law Courts" in the West Central (W.C) district were still under construction,
these Law Courts in the Strand were officially opened by Queen Victoria in 1882.

A second edition of this game was brought out about 1895 as the Highgate Archway card has been dropped
from the pack (the original bridge was built in 1813 and demolished in 1901. The new Arch was built in 1896)
and a new card Tower Bridge (which was built in 1894) was added.

The General Post Office opened near St Martin Le Grand in 1829 and the districts of London,
EC1 (East Central 1), SW1 (South West 1), NW1 (North West 1) and so on are expressed using
St Martin le Grand as the central reference point.

Game of the Lost Heir
by Various Manufacturers

1)1875 ?.

2) NERLICH & CO. Lost Heir, Canadian edition

3)1893 McLoughlin Bros.

4)1900 McLoughlin Bros.

5) 1908 Milton Bradley There are 32 cards included: Mayor (#7), Chief (#6), Commissioner (#5),
Detective (#4), Captain (#3), Sergeant (#2), Policeman (#1), The Lost Heir, The Wrong Boy, two blank cards,
and two extra cards (Buffalo and New York).  This is an American version of the game with the cities on the
cards: Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, and New York.

6)1920s Canada Games Co. Ltd ( The Canada Games Co was formed in 1886. This firm was a branch of the
British Copp Clark Co and never fared very well; most of its games were cheaply made and less attractive than
the American or European products). This is a Canadian version of the game, the cities on the cards are:
Winnipeg (green); Halifax (black); Montreal (red) and Toronto (blue).

7)? A Somerville Game.(S261) Although this is a Canadian company this game is set in America with the
4 cities being New York (green); Boston (red); Detroit (yellow) and Chicago (blue),. There are only 22 cards in
this pack. 5 of each for the 4 cities and the Wrong Boy” and the “Lost Heir”cards.

8)? Copp Clark  Toronto The cards have canadian cities named on them instructions are in English and French

The Lost Heir. is a trick taking card game where players bid to find There are usually 32 cards, divided into four
city suits of seven cards, plus one Lost Heir card, a Wrong Boy card, and two additional city cards to even out
the deck for two or four players. For flavor, each suit represents a different city, and each card is named
(Mayor, Chief, Commissioner, Detective, etc.).

Players bid for the right to make trump (in game terms choice of Police). The dealer may take the bid, or
refuse. If the bid is taken, the first card lead becomes trump for the round. The game continues until all tricks
are played. Players score one point per trick taken, plus an additional five points if they recovered the 'Lost Heir'
. A player loses three points if they recover the 'Wrong Boy'. The player who won the bid for the round gets no
points if he did not match his bid.

The game is played over a number of rounds, the first player to 40 points wins.

Lyons Coffee and Chicory extract Happy Families
by J. Lyons & Co Ltd,

This set of happy families playing cards consists of 6 sets of 4:
CUP
SPOON
NOWASTE
EXTRACT
ALL TIMES
KETTLE

On the reverse of the playing cards are printed 'Every Happy Family drinks Lyons' Coffee & Chicory
Extract'. beautifully illustrated