Trades People Happy Families
Happy Families game depicting trades people from 1920s, unknown maker/publisher, a total of 56 cards. Price one Shilling.
The various characters and their families are brightly coloured, dressed in their working clothes. Each family has a Mr, Mrs, Master and Miss - Baker, Butcher, Coalman, Cobbler, Dustman, Fireman, Fishmonger, Grocer, Milkman, Policeman, Porter, Postman, Sweep, Tailor - fourteen families whose specialised skills and respectful service was integral to daily life in our local communities, often delivering to the doorstep, before the advent of supermarkets and internet shopping.
Above: Happy Families set, unknown maker / publisher, 56 cards, square corners, plain pink backs, size of cards = 60mm x 88mm, no identity on the box. A companion Snap game was also published with some of the same characters.