Kum-Bak Sports, Toys & Games

Kum-Bak card games include: “Jack of all Trades”, “Market” or “Covent Garden”, “Run-It-Out” or “Card Cricket”, “Non-Revoke” playing cards and a Kum–Bak edition of “Kargo”. There was also a Games Compendium. Their card games were acquired by Pepys in the late 1930s but the company continued producing indoor and outdoor games, such as “Kum-Bak” which was a ball on a long piece of elastic attached to a post driven into the ground which you hit with a bat alternately with a partner.

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Above: a mail shot advertising flyer from Kum-Bak in the mid 1930s before their card games were acquired by Pepys in around 1938-9. The accompanying order form is shown to right.

Playing Cards

Indoor Games

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Above: Nyner indoor board game, c.1935. Courtesy Paul Butcher.