Railway Bookshop game, 1908 Catalogue ref: COPY 1/274 f141
This is the lid of a children’s game which is not a board game.
Transcript
The Railway Bookstall
The Children’s New Game of Shop
Complete with model copies of the principal
Newspapers
Magazines
Weekly papers
Novels
Money
Show bills
Pot of Stickphast’s for Billposting
- What is this game called?
- How can you work out what is inside the box?
- How would children play this game?
- Does this game reveal anything about what people enjoyed reading or were interested in?
- Is the game trying to teach children anything?
- Would children play this sort of game today?