| Name | The Whitehouse Collection |
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| Description | The late Col. Whitehouse's collection of Board and Table Games is exposed in his book "Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days", Peter Garnett Ltd 1951, later edition Priory Press 1971. Information is given for all the games of the period 1750-1850 he was able to locate. Those games that GARD does not include elsewhere have been added to the database. |
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| Collection Type | Private Collection |
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| Links to collection records | 13 Examples
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| A Sotheby's sale catalogue has a lengthy description of an auction that appears to include his items viz:
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Autograph Letters, Historical Documents, Etc: Comprising Valuable Books...
...; a Collection of Children's Table Games, the Property of Major F.R.B. Whitehouse, M.B.E. (author of "Table Games of Georgian and Victorian Days");...
...the Property of Lord Robert Crichton-Stuart : which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... Day of Sale: Monday, March 15, 1954
A game with Whitehouse provenance was found in a later auction:
https://www.tooveys.com/lots/406525/game-a-hand-coloured-engraving-in-12-sections/
Major Whitehouse was Chairman of Chad Valley 1946-1956 (see http://www.giochidelloca.it/storia/valley.pdf). |