The Chad Valley Works
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[title Panic Post]
PANIC POST
PANIC POST
MADE AT THE CHAD VALLEY WORKS
HARDBORNE, ENGLAND
A Rollicking Party Game with no Age Limit!
label under box lid
“PANIC POST.”
A Rollicking Prize-winning Game for young folk of all ages, equally well suited for Indoor or Outdoor use.
RULES FOR PLAYING.
The game may be played by any number of people, one or two of whom should stand out, one taking charge of the “Mail" Box and the other acting as Scorer. (In a small party the Scorer may take charge of the “Mail” Box also).
Before commencing play, the Scorer should distribute the Postal Letter Boxes throughout the house (or about the garden), placing them upright in conspicuous and accessible positions (on tables, seats, window ledges, for example), one or more boxes on each site, anywhere round the house or garden. (If played out-of-doors the Postal Boxes may conveniently be stood in saucers). If preferred, only three or four different rooms or places need be used, but the more widely distributed the sites and the farther apart those bearing similar Town names, the greater the fun.
The Scorer having prepared a list of players, and the postal cards having been shuffled face downwards in the “Mail” Box in charge of himself or his colleague, each player draws a card and rushes off to post it in its appropriate Letter Box, returning then for another one and repeating the process.
A mark is recorded by the Scorer as each player returns for a new card, it being left to the honour of the players to post their cards only in the Boxes to which they correctly belong, and not to look at the names of cards before drawing them.
The game may be played for 15 or 30 minutes or other agreed period and, if desired, a prize awarded the player with the most marks. As a prize-winning competition few games are more provocative of uproar[i]ous fun for a party of six or more young people.
Entry of “Panic Post’’ Game Label at Stationers’ Hall, London, No. 2316 Reg. F.A.. dated 17 February, 1932
Provisional Patent Application No. 3310 officially accepted in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Sole Manufacturers, The Chad Valley Co., Ltd., Harbome.
12¾ inches wide — 10⅜ inches high — 1⅜ inches deep
32.4 cm wide — 26.4 cm high — 3.5 cm deep
Label with offwhite background, offwhite outer border, then red border (along with corners depicting letter boxes in red inside the red border) and then a wider offwhite framew border. The interior background is blue.
Across the top on the wider offwhite border are stylized running postmen (blue with flesh-colored faces), upside down. The same is at the bottom but right-side up.
Along the left side are two stylized postmen, then "PANIC POST" (in black), then two more such postmen. The same is on the right side but reversed so the lettering and postmen are upright when viewed from the side.
The main illustration on the blue background depicts a red British letter box with a letter hole near the top (in black), a white area below (for notices), then a script "GR" logo with a crown above it (in black), two black lines below. ["GR" means that the letter box was installed when King George VI Rex reigned (1936 to 1952.] Another such letter box appears at center right.
Between is a man (black suit and shirt and bowtie, bald, white hair, with cigarette in mouth) at upper left who is running to the right, holding a letter in his right hand. To the right is another man (black suit, white shirt, black bowtie, black hair, running to the left with a "POST CARD" marked "HARBORNE" in right hand.
Below is a boy (gray suit with gray pants and long gray socks, white shirt, red hair) running to the right, holding a "POS"[T CARD] marked "DAWLISH" in his right hand. To his right is a woman (white dress, yellow-blonde hair), running right with a white letter in her right hand.
Below the 4 people is the title, "Panic Post" (italic, serifed, yellow letters with a dashed black left shadow). The title is connected to a yellow bar across the box below it, which also has a black line.
To the left of the title is "MADE AT CHAD VALLEY WORKS" (in white on the blue background). To the right is "HARBORNE, ENGLAND" (also in white ont he blue background).
Below the yellow bar is "A Rollicking Party Game with no Age Limit! (white, italic, serifed).
red, empty
Red with no design.
tan, empty
Red cardboard letter boxes (3" by 3" by 7" tall frames) are provided for the following locations: "HARLOW", "WOODFORD", "HARBORNE", "LYMINGTON", "ABERDEEN", "BIDFORD", "WOODBRIDGE", "BEDFORD", and "LEAMINGTON". Each box has the location title (in black) at top on a white rectangle, with a black line above and also below.
Below the letter box location is the aperture for depositing letters (in black). Below, in the middle of the letter box, is the notice, "HOURS OF COLLECTION" with "A.M." at "7.30", "8.45", "10.15", and "11.35", and "P.M." at "12.50", "2.10", "4.30", and "6.31". The top right of the notice box repeats "P.M." over "6.31".
Below the notice is the "GR" cipher, the letters "G" and "R" intertwined below a crown, all in black. This indicates the letter box was installed between 1936 and 1952 during the reign of King George VI.
Thin cardboard cards (2 3/8" by 1 3/8") are provided for each of the letter box locations. The following are included: 12 "HARLOW", "WOODFORD", 12 "HARBORNE", 12 "LYMINGTON", 12 "ABERDEEN", 12 "BIDFORD", 12 "WOODBRIDGE", 12 "BEDFORD", and 12 "LEAMINGTON".
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