Waddesdon board games: update

The excellent Giochi dell'Oca website contains the records and images for the French board games at Waddesdon Manor referred to in my blog post of June 26. They can be seen by selecting Collezione Rothschild - Waddesdon (The National Trust) from the Game Owner drop-down menu.  The full catalogue records (by Phillippa Plock) can also be seen as a pdf, without the associated images.  Further analysis and supplementary images of the Waddesdon games will soon appear on this site and the catalogue will, in due course, also be available through the Waddesdon Collection web pages.

(C) Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust)

Photo: Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor.

(C) Giochi dell'Oca (website)

Stevengraphs

Bookmarkers, etc. woven by Thomas Stevens of Coventry form a very specific category of ephemera. Stevengraphs, Bookmarks & Postcards, etc is an excellent example of a collector/dealer (in this case Malcolm J Roebuck) documenting and researching his field, taking forward in this case electronically, the work of Geoffrey A. Godden in his book, Stevengraphs and other Victorian silk pictures. The site isn't limited to Stevengraphs but includes other manufacturers of woven silk bookmarkers, postcards, etc. 1,600 images are already on the site, the aim of which is  "to offer the most complete history of Thomas Stevens."

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