Merry Andrews Happy Families
Merry Andrews - the very Happy Families, published by Scott & Turner Ltd, 1936.
Merry Andrews - the very Happy Families, a promotional card game featuring Andrews Liver Salt, published by Scott & Turner Ltd, 1936. The figures depict caricatures of typical 1930s characters in ten family sets of four cards each.
Boxem the packer • Wiseman the shopkeeper • Canister the tin maker • Sales the traveller • Truth the advertising agent • Toot the van driver • Careful the mixing foreman • Phizz the chemist • Dudliver the grouser • Merry Andrew the healthy man.
Above: Merry Andrews - the very Happy Families, published by Scott & Turner Ltd, 1936. 40 cards + rules leaflet in box.
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