The Great Australian Rabbit Trapping Game A small match box sized game, the type that some would remember from their own childhood, except a plastic variety. This one was produced by the Sheldon Drug Company and inside the box, apart from the game mechanism, is an advertisement for a medicinal product sold by the company. The Sheldon Drug Company was established in 1904 and based in Sydney. The company manufactured products including cosmetics, soaps and other ointment-type items.Red cardboard box containing a game. The game is called 'Trapping Rabbits'. Lid of box has instructions for playing the game. Inside the box is a small metal oblong container with a narrow metal entry way. There are also two jumping bean 'rabbits'. Inside the box is also an advertisement for Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules. The game was obtainable from Sheldon Drug Company Ltd. Sydney. Underside of box has ad for 'Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment'. Front - The Great Australian Game / Trapping Rabbits Back - Dr Sheldon's Magnetic Linimentleisure, game, games, toys, children, advertising, sheldon, sheldon drug, rabbits, glenelg shire council, portland

This was one of several games in a series which focused on Regional Cities within NSW and Victoria, Australia. Their main function was to promote regions and businesses within the cities featured in each game. The gameboard is a full colour representation of each city and the players competed with each other to race to targeted destinations on the gameboard. The first player to arrive at the targeted destination bought that property and received a destination card. The first player to purchase 10 destination cards and return home safely, won the game. Cards in the game featured local businesses and landmarks. This item is significant because it was an alternate way to market the Albury- Wodonga region in the 1980s.A board game including a coloured board featuring locations in Albury - Wodonga. The board has a green background with streets and buildings in various colours. The box is half in bright yellow and features an image of family playing the game. The rest of the box features 9 images of locations in the area.On the box: This is your City Albury - Wodonga Game Limited Edition FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILYalbury - wodonga game, leisure activities albury wodonga, albury-wodonga marketing

Party game, 'The Tale of a Shirt' consisting of thirty cards, rules of the game enclosed in a red cardboard box.A.V.P.L. Party Game|The Tale of a Shirt.toys, games

Solitaire is a game for a single player that is played with pegs or marbles on a wooden board. The game consists of 32 marbles and a wooden board with 33 dents in it. The game is set up by placing 32 marbles in 32 dents, leaving the centre dent empty. The aim of the game is to remove every marble except one – and the last one must end up in the centre dent.To remove a marble, you have to move one marble over another marble, landing in an empty dent. Marbles can move up, down, left or right but never diagonally.Plain cardboard box with colourful graphic design of the game on the lid. The box encloses the round wooden playing board while the plastic marbles are contented in plastic wrapping in their own compartment. A note in pencil on the lid of the box, written by the donor, notes that three of the 36 marbles are missing.Label on box: "SOLITAIRE / THE WELL_KNOWN / GAME / Full Instructions Enclosed / Made in Germany"board game, games and puzzles, board games -- solitaire

The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection. Chinese Chequers was first commercially produced in 1938, although it is not Chinese, nor a form of checkers. The maker of the game, John Sands Pty Ltd produced board games between 1929 and 1978. Milton Bradley is a famous American board game manufacturer.Original packaging in a labelled cardboard box that includes a board games played by moving checkers from the triangle closets to each player to the opposite side of the board. The game includes multicoloured marbles.Cover of box: "Chinese Star Checkers - A game from the Orient for all ages. chinese checkers, john sands pty ltd

The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Lotto. Box title "THE POPULAR GAME OF LOTTO". Inside the lid are a set of instructions for playing the game of "Lotto or House". The game was manufactured "solely at Chad Valley Works, Harborne, England. Beside the rules, in pencil is the name "P. Knight", presumably the owner of the game. chad valley works, lotto

This game was advertised as a "new game" in 1909.Board game called Advance Australia. The board is divided in 144 squares with 136 numbered consecutively. The game was played with a pair of dice. The game has its unique form, with shipwrecks, lost in the outback, hazardous landings and high seas being some features. The leather tumbler and dice are with the game. Also, with the game there are two newspaper articles, one by David Horsfall the other by Leighton Rawlings giving a detailed description of the game. From the map details it is reasonable to guess the game was produced early 1900s. Chad Valley series of gamesgame, boardgame, early federation

Chinese Star Checkers is a game for 2 to 6 players. Instructions are included.Game in cardboard box. Timber board with painted star and holes for game pieces. Bag of game pieces (small coloured balls).board games, chinese checkers

Strategy is a board game involving army divisions, battleships and aircraft. The tactical object of the game is to steadily reduce your opponent's forces until you have numerical advantage.An Australian-made game possibly published during or just after World War 2.Board game in cardboard box. Includes game board, sheet of "Rules" and 29 playing 'pieces' [5 missing]war games, board games, strategy [game]

The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Board game comprising cover, writing pads, based on a television program."Guest's Letter Box Card Game as played on the Channel 7 national show."board game, guest's letter box

'Pick Up Sticks' Popular GameRed coloured cylinder containing 36 coloured plastic sticks in red, green and yellow.'Pick Up Sticks'; 'The Family Game'

``Newspaper clipping from "The Post", 17/2/98, P 11. Gaming outlawed at 17 sites Gaming has been banned at 17 strip shopping centres across Maroondah. Most of the centres of council's updated list had previously been identified as inappropriate for gaming. According to a council report, the State Government's request "is a clear indication that the statewide cap of 27,500 gaming machines is to be retained.`

Eye Guess was originally an American television game show, on which an Australian program, screened on 'Channel O' (now Network 10) in the 1960s, was based. The television programs spawned board games in both America and Australia.The American board game was produced by Milton Bradley, and featured the American compere of the show. An Australian version, produced by John Sands Pty Ltd., featured Jimmy Hannan, the Australian host.The local television version of Eye Guess reflects the influence of American media on television and popular entertainment in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. The production of the game also reflectss the influence of American models on Australia domestic entertainment.Eye Guess - Jimmy Hannan's New TV Game, Australia c.1996 was based on the series/game from the United States of America. The game is complete and includes instructions.board games, jimmy hannan

Black and white photograph Roy Rawlings at opening gaming machines at Bowls Club. Lakes Entrance Victoriabowls club, service staff, gaming

Game uses playing cards and a comic strip to teach children fractions.Methods of teaching change over time and this gives one example of a teaching aid.In cardboard box: 100 game cards (2 sets of 50 cards) with a fraction game which builds into a comic strip. Multi-coloured cards.fractions, playing cards, card games, educational games, lower plenty primary school

The National Bicycle Game is an Australian-made and designed board game for 2, 3 or 4 players made by The National Game Company of Ballarat and Melbourne between 1930 and 1950. The earliest board games date from the mid-18th century and were printed on copper or steel plates and coloured by hand. By 1839 lithography was first used, making it possible for publishers to produce larger quantities of all types of toys. By the 1890s the games were mounted on to a folded board. Popular subjects were of an historical or geographical nature, as well as transport including motoring, aviation and railways and various sports. The board game 'A Motor Ride' ,made by The National Game Company, was possibly the first large-scale manufacturer of locally-designed board games in Australia. The firm was established in Ballarat, Victoria, at the beginning of the twentieth century by W. Owen. Other board games made by National include the 'Victory-United Nations" game, 'Fairyland', 'Yacht Race', 'Golf Game', 'Bicycle Game', Steeple Chase', 'Our Great Game' about football, 'Courtship and Marriage', 'Around the Commonwealth by Aeroplane', and 'Dugouts and Trenches' as well as the more traditional games such as Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, and Noughts and Crosses. This game board has been well-used. The game is significant because it uses scenarios familiar to Australian children in the first half of the twentieth century. This game board reflects the experience of being a child in the twentieth century. Toys were how children were socialised and taught. Most toys mimic the adult world, and looking at them can tell us something about how the world has changed. A folding game board for The national Bicycle Game for 2,3 or 4 players. It has a yellow spiral track on which the player progresses at the throw of the die, starting at the clubhouse until reaching home. In the background are pictures of rural scenes.board-games recreation cycling national-game-company

A game of bingo, including all needed to play Bingo at home. Game is complete with game cards, plastic numbered balls and barrel.Game in original cardboard box. Includes plastic barrel, small red and white numbered balls and cardboard bingo cards.bingo, games

DVFL Grand Final 1952.Greensborough (13.18.96) versus Eltham (6.8.44). An action shot from the game, this photograph was displayed at the GFC Hall of Fame in 2016. Don McDowell is identified.This photograph is a record of the team - players and support staff - involved in the 1900 season.Action photograph from football gameSome players are identified.greensborough football club, diamond valley football league, premiers, don mcdowell

Souvenir Football Optus Oval Farewell Game May 21 2005The Football was issued to commemorate Carlton Football Club's last game at Optus Oval/Princes Park in 2005. Farewell Princes Park Damn football! It’s just a game and it’s just an oval; dirt, grass and a few bumbling stands. Oh and there is the ghost of dad standing under the clock, smiling, dancing his jig, God love him, he loved his Bluebaggers. Oh and Pop's over there too, his scissors in his hand; he's rushed across from Lygon Street again to see the boys play. Both, like the ground now, gone for good - never to be seen again though their memories shine still. And then there's me as a lad, surrounded by men, the cans wobbling beneath my feet, my neck stretched up; I can see, I can see Ragsy!!!!!! and brave Gary Crane and Quirky on the wing and…. and it’s just a ground, just dirt and grass and the distant sound of trams. And there I am as a young man standing with my brothers, all of us singing wildly this GF evening as another flag is brought home! And there I am with Keith standing, always beer in hand, and watching Kouta and SOS and dear beloved Motley flying. But it’s only a ground just dirt and grass and late afternoon sun. There I am now, older, sitting beside me is my son, he holds the record and marks the goals, though these come far fewer nowadays. But it is only a ground and dirt and grass and memories that linger and the taste of shared drinks and the voices cheering in the outer. But it is only a ground, a ground whose moment has passed, who’s time in the sun is now time in shadow and no more balls to be bounced on that dirt nor football boots running across that grass, for there will be no more games played at Princes Park. Never again the tram down Royal Parade, never again a beer at The Rising Sun or the sound of the fans cheering madly in front of the Heatley Stand. But it is only a ground only dirt and grass and the memories, the sum total of all of us. I feel like a friend has passed...... Farewell Princes Park, time makes memories out all of us. Contributed by DannyboyNavy Blue & White Leather FootballOptus Farewell Game May 21 2005, Carlton Emblem,

A sample set from what would have been a class set of games for each student to work through. The book explains how to use the game board as a vocabulary building aid.This is an early example of an educational aid, used in schools in the 1970s. Sample book and game board from the Tutor Systems teaching aid. The game board consists of a lidded tray with 24 tiles inside.tutor systems, educational games, lower plenty primary school

Origami Finger Game Card - presenting 8 different views and facts about Geelong trams and their relationship to Ballarat and Bendigo.Demonstrates a method of providing information on Geelong tramsOrigami Finger Game Card, with images and facts of Geelong tramstramways, geelong, game card, origami

A colour photograph of a croquet game at Mount Kitchener House taken in April 1960.A colour photograph of a croquet game at Mount Kitchener House taken in April 1960.G26 Croquet MT Kitchener House/ April 1960marysville, victoria, australia, mount kitchener house, mt kitchener house, kitchener house, accommodation, photograph

This wooden base with inserted wooden peg is probably the base for a quoits game. Quoits is a traditional competitive game where players throw a set of horse shoes, rope or rubber rings, or discs one at a time from a particular specified distance towards the wooden base, the aim being to hook them all over the peg.Base; block of square wood with short rod in the middle; probably the base for quoits game.Noneflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, quoits game, traditional game of quoits, traditional games

Clive enlisted in August 1914 in the Public Schools Company of the 5th Battalion. He was killed in the Landing at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 and is commemorated at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli. He was 26. To honour his memory, the Clive Wellington Were Cricket Trophy for 'the boy who plays the game' was presented to Mentone Grammar in 1936, by his sister, Jessie, wife of Headmaster, Charles Campbell Thorold. It was awarded to Henry Watson Leslie, in his first year at the school.Silver cricket bats on silver dome mounted on bakelite basefor 'the boy who plays the game'

The Kew Historical Society’s collection includes a wide range of leisure objects. Many of the items are European-made, generally of British origin, however there are a number that were made for the Australian market by Australian manufacturers. In the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of games produced for children and adults. These included: arcade games, board games, playing cards and puzzles. A representative sample, many now rare survivors, can be found in the collection.Card game called "Comic Families" housed in an original labelled box. The box is purple, orange and white in colour with pictures of family members on the front. There is a complete set of cards but the instructions are missing or never included.Front of box: "Exciting Comic Families. An amusing card game for all of the family."comic families, card games