Glevum Series

Roman profile & helmet with GLEVUM GAMES in oval

[title CARD HOUSES]

[logo GLEVUM GAMES
TRADE MARK]

MADE IN ENGLAND

card, playing card, animal, airplane

label under box lid

"CARD HOUSES"

14½ inches wide — 9¼ inches high — 1 inches deep

36.8 cm wide — 23.5 cm high — 2.5 cm deep

The square top label has a white outer border, then blue, then black line. Background of top three-quarters is yellow. Below the background is green and below, is a red surface representing a table.

"CARD HOUSES" (green with black outline, in italics) is at top.

Young girl (brown hair, long-sleeved blue top, black dress) is at left with left arm outreached toward a girl (brown hair, blue dress with white spots) holding a smaller girl (black hair, red dress) who is holding a card with the letter "L". Below is the red table surface with cards stacked 5 levels high. Boy (brown hair, orange long-sleeved shirt, black short pants) is sitting at table holding a card and looking intently at stack of card houses. Additional card letters sit on the table.

At lower left: "GLEVUM GAMES" Roman helmet "TRADE MARK" (white) logo.

At lower right: "MADE IN ENGLAND" (white).

red

Red with no design.

gray, with red paper edges from wrap-around on box bottom.

Marked 2/6 J2 in pencil in corner.

Some cards have a single notch into the top, others have a tab sticking out of the top. Each card has a capital letter, e.g. "A", followed by a lowercase letter, e.g. "a", on one side. On the other side, an illustration of something whose name starts with that letter is shown, along with the name of it, e.g. "Antelope".

Cards ( 2 5/8" by 3 7/8") with notch (1 each): Antelope, Bear, Cat, Dog, Elephant, Fox.

Cards with tab: Giraffe (2), Horse (2), Ibex (2), Jackal (2), Kangaroo (2), Lion (2), Monkey (2), Nyi-ghau (3), Pig (1), Quagga (1), Rhinoceros (2)

Cards with notch: Stag (1), Tiger (1), Urus/Vole (1), Wolf/Xerus (1), Yak (1), Zebra (1)

Cards with notch: Aeroplane/Artist (1), Boy Scout/Butterfly (1), Clown/Clock (1), Doll/Diver (1), Eagles/Eggs (1), Football/Frog (1)

Cards with tab: Gramophone/Grapes (1), Hand/House (1), Indian/Italian (1), Jack-in-Box/Jay (1), King/Knight (1), Lantern/Lifeboat (1), Milkmaid/Motor Bus (1), Negro/Nurse (1), Organ-boy/Ostrich (1), Parrot/Postman (1), Quail/Queen (1)

Cards with notch: Raspberry/Rocking Horse (1), Sailor/Steampship (1), Taxi-Cab/Trumpet (1), Union Jack/Victory (1), Wheelbarrow/Well (1), Xebec/Yeoman (1), Zulu/Zebu (1)

Handmarked offwhite cards (2 5/8" by 3 7/8") marked from 1 to 20 plus 6 unmarked cards