Woodland Happy Families Classic Card Game for Kids | Retro Design & Illustrations | Bright, colourful & fun travel card game | Gibsons Games

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Belisha was also released in 1937 and Progress was designed and ready to go in 1938, both drawn by the same unknown artist, at the top end of the range and in fancy padded boxes with high quality rules books, to sell at 2/6, a pretty high price for the time.

Riders of the Range again based on an “Eagle” comic strip and its hero, Jeff Arnold, also came out this year. Ern Shaw devised another game for Pepys in this period called Sylabex, a syllable word game, at first in a double sized lid and bottom type box with 72 cards, but later, in at least another two editions, in the usual flip top box with 44 cards.I wonder if, when they introduced Woodland Happy Families and Woodland Snap, they realised just how popular these would be. A good old fashioned game of cowboys and outlaws came on the market in the form of Wild West with very fine pictures and lots of fun. YOUNGER CHILDREN Above: Woodland Old Maid, a Pepys Card Game illustrated by Racey Helps, first published c.1957. . The three 'Old Maids' are: Winnie Woodowl; Hetty Hoot and Olive Brown. Ten sets of four matching cards, plus three 'Old Maid' cards + rules card in cardboard box.

Panda’s Party, another anonymous issue whose box design is so similar to that of Gulliver’s Travels that it must have come from Pepys. A. B. Bowbeer, one of the artists who worked for “Flight” magazine, drew the cards for the new “Double Feature” game Test Pilot which was endorsed by Neville Duke the chief test pilot for Hawker. TELEVISION AND FILMS Another Enid Blyton game was published as well called Secret Seven appropriately enough based on the old game Sevens.Racey Helps drew another game for Pepys with Woodland Old Maid. The Old Maids are splendid owls and the rules are on a card not in a book. Another Disney based game, Cinderella, was one of the first in 1954, and it’s a particularly good one. The standard of both the artwork and the printing is superb. Three or more can play and special cards are normally used, each showing four members of a family, mother, father, son and daughter, However, variations have been developed to use groups of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 to a set. Also subject variations occur and some are educational, for example The Counties of England. Also ready was a game that would come to represent the essence of Pepys and become one of the most successful card games ever produced by any British manufacturer. AIDS DEVELOPMENT - Perfect toys for your child – Little Gibsons puzzles and games are for kids of every age and help support a child’s creative and cognitive development.

Castell Bros Ltd were located at 55 Clerkenwell Road London, E.C. in 1908 when they submitted a Provisional Application for a new type of Whist Token The earlier ones without Bar Codes were issued late 1970s to 1984 when the bar code appeared on the boxes. The Original Jaques Snap and Happy Families also were issued under licence at the time.

The last throes of the company were The Famous Five, a second edition completely redrawn (and gaining absolutely nothing from it) in 1975 and also Rupert was reissued, both tied in with TV series.

The “Double Feature” game was Wimbledon with a tennis court and small extra cards and coming with the endorsement of Fred Perry.Legs Eleven was the only game produced in Hong Kong and it even had square corners. This could well have been by way of an experiment, which seems not to have been a success.