Parlor games

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Historical Early American Folk Toys and authentic handmade traditional indoor parlor games from pioneer, colonial and victorian periods in the history of the USA wholesale for museum gift shops and living history centers.

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Try out Victorian Christmas games in your classroom.

Back in the days before TV and the internet, people amused themselves over the holidays by playing parlour games. One game popular in Regency-era

'Remember when you played cards or knucklebones or noughts and crosses? Or what about charades, murder in the dark, I spy or hide and seek? Or made chatterboxes, those devices made from a square of paper that you flipped open between thumbs and forefingers with wishes and dreams under the flaps. This book has the lot. It may even ween you off the telly. Remember blind man's buff? What about conversations, in which players discuss a topic by starting each sentence with a consecutive letter of…

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Ever want to party like its 1912? Well ladies and gentleman, it takes much more than purchasing a fascinator and calling everyone an old chap. There must be a steady stream of amusements, the likes of which must only have been found humorous by a population inadvertently digesting cocaine. Here are some of the wonderful games you can play while waiting for the return of Downton Abbey: - My Lady's Toilet - The German Dwarf - The Cotton Flies - Scissors Crossed or Not Crossed Call No.: 793…

Traditional parlour games played during Christmas during Victorian times. Here's 21 Victorian parlour games to try at this home this Christmas.