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UK Manufacturers, Part2
At first the backs of these cards were plain but after a few years a complicated pattern was added, to hide up marks from grubby hands and over use.
These cards proved such a popular sideline that soon more games were added to the ever growing list.
It wasn't long before other companies started following their lead including Thomas De la Rue Ltd, and A Collier Ltd two of the foremost playing card manufacturers of the day, and so the genre of card games was truly established.
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Some games were developed to take advantage of the important news of the day, such as the celebrated court case in 1871-72 of a man claiming to be the missing Sir Roger Titchborne, heir to a large family fortune. Never a company to miss an opportunity, almost immediately Jaques bought out a game called “Who's Sir Roger”.
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Most of the card manufacturers originally sold stationery, indeed the games were sold in stationers rather than toy shops, making them available to all and appealing to all generations.
In the 1890s Johnstone Brothers (Harbourne) Ltd, better known as Chad Valley, started producing card games as did the Roberts Brothers of Gloucester under the name Glevum Toys.
In 1903 H. P. Gibson started up The International Card Co. with one of his first games being “The New Game of Peter Pan”, as J M Barrie's play Peter Pan was all the rage at the time. Even after he had sold The International Card Co. to De la Rue's in 1919, he set up another new company, H. P. Gibson & sons which is still going strong today making card games and jigsaws.
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The International Card Co Peter Pan |
Thomas De la Rue Ltd Cheery Families |
Chad Valley Ltd Happy Families |
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