Peter Berthoud
Finding Jealous Horns in Hymen's Looking Glass - Wardour Street 1815
Satirical Print with two heads that can be inverted. Published as the Act directs Jan'y 4th 1815, by M. Clinch No. 20 Princes Street Soho
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Peter Berthoud
Nov 3, 2022
Card Games of World War II
Throughout the war, card games were a hugely popular source of entertainment and diversion for adults and children. These are some of the ga
Peter Berthoud
Sep 30, 2022
Floral Loto - A New Round Game by Jaques & Son c1870
Floral Loto is an intelligent game that rewards horticultural knowledge and mixes gambling with education. Produced by the great London...
Peter Berthoud
Sep 26, 2022
The Air-Photo Atlas of London of 1949
In 1949 Phoenix House Ltd. published their Air-Photo Atlas of London. The aerial maps provide a "street guide from the air" to post-war...
Peter Berthoud
Sep 26, 2022
Air-Photo Atlas of 1949 - Index and Introductory Notes
This is the index to the 1949, Phoenix House Ltd., Air-Photo Atlas of London. For the complete set of maps & images from the atlas please...
Peter Berthoud
Sep 5, 2022
London in a Nutshell
An antique memento is unfurled to reveal London's top sights in 1903. The unfurled Nutshell contains 43 tiny images of London circa 1903...
Peter Berthoud
Aug 14, 2022
A 3D Map of Soho in 1991
The Soho Cityscape 1991/92 is one of my favourite London maps. The locations of sights, shops, food places, pubs and entertainments from...
Peter Berthoud
Aug 13, 2022
A London Town Bagatelle
London Town Bagatelle - Made by Chad Valley, undated, late 1940's or early 1950's. Cardboard with five wooden balls, tin cups and steel...
Peter Berthoud
Aug 10, 2022
Postcards of London Life in 1950 by Charles Skilton
A celebrated series of postcards depicting London Life by renowned publisher Charles Skilton crop up regularly on eBay and the like. The...
Peter Berthoud
Apr 11, 2022
Snow White - The Shooting Game by Chad Valley for British Home Stores c. 1938
One day, around 84 years ago, Chad Valley produced an exceptionally odd gun-themed Disney game, The Snow White Shooting Game. The...
Peter Berthoud
Mar 22, 2022
The London Post - A New Game, Jaques & Son,102, Hatton Garden. Published c. 1870
The London Post is a set collecting card game, published by Jaques & Son, Hatton Green London c 1870
64 Cards,
Peter Berthoud
Mar 20, 2022
The RMS Queen Mary in Trafalgar Square, Jig-Saw Puzzle
The jigsaw was manufactured for Cunard White Star Limited by The Chad Valley Co. Ltd., Harbourne, England, 1936.
Peter Berthoud
Mar 10, 2022
LOBO - A 90 Year Old Card Game Based on the London Underground
Lobo, the London Underground themed card game was published by Thomas De La Rue in 1932. LOBO is the first game I know of based on the...
Peter Berthoud
Mar 7, 2022
Discovering London - The Board Game
As a tour guide in London I have traded as Discovering London for over a decade. When I came across this board game last year I had to...
Peter Berthoud
Feb 25, 2022
Skits: Produced c 1884 by Jaques & Son, 102 Hatton Garden, London
A beautiful antique card game by one of my favourite London Makers, Jaques & Sons, London. Each of the forty old counties of England has...
Peter Berthoud
Dec 7, 2021
Owzthat - More Outside Sports Tabled Together in 1932
Owzthat” “Made in Great Britain” and “Reg. Trade Mark. 533475.” “Pat. App. 18960” 1932 by Norman Cook of Exchange Street Manchester.
Peter Berthoud
Dec 5, 2021
A 90 Year Old Cricketing Mystery Solved - Owzthat!
Norman Cook of Manchester Patented and Trademarked Owzthat in 1932. How to Identify and Date Early Sets of Owzthat.
Peter Berthoud
Apr 7, 2018
High Suspense in Mayfair
This is what being a telephone engineer involved in 1930s London. Twice a year the steel wires which support London's telephone cables -...
Peter Berthoud
Mar 7, 2018
Golf and Guns: London's Rooftop Playground in the 1930s
High above London, men and women were at play in 1938. Back then one could shoot guns and play golf on a rooftop. Here are some...
Peter Berthoud
Feb 17, 2018
Hyde Park: Shepherd and His Sheep
In the 1920s and 30s a Scottish shepherd grazed his sheep in Hyde Park. George Donald travelled down each year from Aberdeen together...
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