Card game set, slipcase and cards, 'The Countries of Britain', by John Jaques & son, printed card, England, 1930-1940

Design: card printed in colours to show an illustration and details about it; reverse sides printed in black and white to show a locomotive set against a map
No. of cards: 46
No. illustrated: some

The secondary title continues `Comprising reproductions of Famous railway posters in groups with diescriptive details of each town or district , the game being similar to Counties of England. '
Some of the illustrations may be of the late 1920s but the overall appearance is of the 1930s. At the same time Chad Valley was producing jigsaw puzzles for the railways, notably Great Western. Many of the illustrations are marked FROM A POSTER ISSUED BY THE LNERLY. Counties are Cambridgeshire, Northumberland, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Durham, Yorkshire, Essex and Scotland.

Rewards: see rules
There are two sets of rules; the basic Happy Families and a second which requires counters to be paid as forfeits and rewards.
Forfeits: see rules
No. of Players: any above 3
Equipment required: 9 county cards, each numbered and listing the towns needed to complete the county set; sets size vary between 3 and 7 cards which ae printed to show a specific town listing historical events associated with the town and its population
key card ; original box orange card printed to show the title and an illustration of a loco engine and a map of the country

Rules:
RULES FOR THE GAME OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND.

Any number above three can play. The cards to be shuffled and dealt round. The player next to the dealer ( or the winner of a previous round) begins the game by asking for a card of any county of which he holds either a town or the county card. If he gets it, he continues asking for what he wants till he is refused. Then the privelege of asking devolves upon the player who refused him; he in his turn asks for any card he requires to complete his set, until he is refused, and so the game goes on.
When a player has the County card in his hand he knows how many towns he requires to make up a set. Every set made up is proclaimed and laid down on the table.
The player who has made up most sets is winner when the cards are all played out, and has the privilege of the first question at the next round.
Any player withholding a card asked for, forfeits a set. Disputes to be settled by reference to the key.

OR THE GAME MAY BE PLAYED THUS:-
1. One player to be chosen as President.
2. The president to retain the county cards, and deal the picture cards round.
3. Six counters to be given to each player and some put in the pool.
4. The president to ask each player in turn for a card of the town belonging to the country which he mentions.
5. If a card of another county is offered, the person forfeits one to the pool; but if the right one is offered, he takes one from the pool.
6. Any person relating a fact or describing scenery, manufactures, etc. connected with his card, receives an additional counter from the pool.
7. The sets being all made up, he who has the most counters wins.

published by John Jaques & son, 15-21 Kirby Street, Hatton Gardens, London, EC1

B.261:1to48-1996