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Published October 05, 1998 Updated October 31, 2022

Stap Op

Stap Op by Penco for Victory Spelen 1945. A clone of Parker’s Touring except the Dutch have to do it all on a bicycle.

1945 Netherlands Penco Sports Card Games Add to Collection

Stap Op (Step Up) by Penco for Victory Spelen 1945. A clone of Parker’s Touring except the Dutch have to do it all on a bicycle. The game was written about in the legendary “Het Spel” magazine which only lasted for 3 issues in 1993. Stap Op was reviewed by Gejus van Diggele in issue 2

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Stap Op by Penco for Victory Spelen 1945
Stap Op by Penco for Victory Spelen 1945

Above: Stap Op by Penco for Victory Spelen 1945. 100 cards + rules in box. I understand the the game has survived until fairly recently so I hope those packs were made from a better quality card – this board is very coarse.

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By Rex Pitts (1940-2021)

Member since January 30, 2009

Rex's main interest was in card games, because, he said, they were cheap and easy to get hold of in his early days of collecting. He is well known for his extensive knowledge of Pepys games and his book is on the bookshelves of many.

His other interest was non-standard playing cards. He also had collections of sheet music, music CDs, models of London buses, London Transport timetables and maps and other objects that intrigued him.

Rex had a chequered career at school. He was expelled twice, on one occasion for smoking! Despite this he trained as a radio engineer and worked for the BBC in the World Service.

Later he moved into sales and worked for a firm that made all kinds of packaging, a job he enjoyed until his retirement. He became an expert on boxes and would always investigate those that held his cards. He could always recognize a box made for Pepys, which were the same as those of Alf Cooke’s Universal Playing Card Company, who printed the card games. This interest changed into an ability to make and mend boxes, which he did with great dexterity. He loved this kind of handicraft work.

His dexterity of hand and eye soon led to his making card games of his own design. He spent hours and hours carefully cutting them out and colouring them by hand.


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