- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Very small cup [.1] and ball game [.2].
- Long description
- The handle/ catching device is cross-shaped and constructed from two pieces of pale wood, the horizontal piece being perforated and slotted over the tip of the upright and is fixed about a third of the way down. The upright is slightly conical and ends in a long narrow point. The horizontal is shaped like a double-ended hammer head: it is a short length of wood with rounded concave sides and a shallow cup carved at either end forming a double-ended catching device. The horizontal is painted with red and green bands and varnished, and the upright is painted with one rd, one black, and one green band and varnished. Attached to the handle/ catching device with a length of white cotton yarn is a wooden ball (circa 20 mm diameter) which has been painted red and varnished and drilled with a deep hole. When playing the game the wooden ball can either be caught in one of the two shallow cups, or by getting the point of the upright into the hole in the ball. [JP 26/4/2004]
- Geographical reference
- England Wales Scotland Northern Ireland
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1989
- Date collected
- 1980 - 1989
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 2004
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Pigment, Material Varnish, Process Turned, Process Painted, Process Varnished
- Dimensions
- Height: max 72 mm, Width: max 32 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2004.3.21.1 Accession number: 2004.3.21.2
Search terms: Toy and Game, Game