Sale
16862 - Chess Sets, Games and Playing Cards, 28 Oct 2009
Knightsbridge
Lot No: 129
A "Pank-A-Squith" Suffragette board game,
Germany, 1909,
the folding board with a centre hinge, "lizard" patterned red boards, "Pank-A-Squith" in gilt, the coloured printed board initialled "FW" and with "Made in Germany" stamped in black, together with six suffragette lead "flat" tokens painted in yellow, brown, red, cream, blue and green, and the original instruction leaflet,
the board 45cm long, the figure/counters each 4cm high.
Sold for £4,080 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
Footnote:
This rare board game was first advertised in "Votes for Women" (22nd October 1909), and derives its name from Emmeline Pankhurst and H. H. Asquith.
Green, white and violet were the colours of the suffragette movement, and this is clearly represented on the board. There are fifty squares, with the aim of the game to end at the last square which represents universal suffrage. Square 6 shows a suffragette breaking the windows of the Home Office, Square 16 has a notice: "Any player landing on this space must send a penny to Suffragette Funds", Square 18 depicts Bow Street magistrate's court, Square 32 represents Holloway Prison, and Square 43 to the forced feeding of Hunger Strikers. The game comes with a set of the six original lead suffragette tokens, and the original paper instruction pamphlet.
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