Lot 239:
An H. P. Gibson and Sons Card Game, Travel Mastermind, and Novelty Toy Currency
Description
A collection of vintage games and ephemera. The lot includes a boxed card game titled Ha! Ha! Ha!!! Let’s play IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS and Pertinent Answers, subtitled The Mirth Maker and Sets the World Laughing. The cardboard box is printed in orange and black with an illustration of a laughing face. It bears a printed mark reading MADE IN ENGLAND and H. P. GIBSON & SONS LTD. COPYRIGHT, with the address LONDON, E.C. visible. Also included is a travel version of the logic game Mastermind, consisting of a brown plastic pegboard housed in a clear plastic rectangular slipcase. The board is embossed with the word MASTERMIND in capital letters. The collection is completed by a group of novelty paper toy banknotes designed to resemble British currency. The set includes facsimiles of a purple £20 note, a blue and green £5 note with serial number JB50 683431, and an orange £10 note with serial number EK07 443278. All notes feature a likeness of Queen Elizabeth II and are printed on paper.
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