'INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL WHIST' card game. Pepys. England. 1947 (Published just after WW2) - Over 75 years old.
"all the thrills of a real match" - "A Game of skill"
A TRUE classic vintage card game - an important Sporting game of the period.

It is a game consisting of 44 cards, divided into 4 teams:  England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales:
A pitch which is a fold out linen backed/paper board - see photograph (folds into four to fit in box - opened out it measures 175mm x 238mm)
The ball is a coloured metal disc imprinted with the stitch marks for a football of that period. Unusual for the original disc to still be present.

The game is a two part trick-taking card game. In the first half of the game the winner of each trick gets to take a visible top card from the remainder of the deck (the loser takes a hidden card) and in the second half the cards won in the first half are used.

44 cards Complete.(One tiny crease on 4 of Wales D.Witcomb - hardly noticable) - Witcomb of Wales only played in 1947.

Reverse: printed in red and white
88 x 58
Original small 12-page rulebook (Complete, but slight crease, see photo)
EXCELLENT condition. Fine bright, clean.
Original nice quality box with lid with a good illustration, complete. (*The inner box has one long edge which has come unglued).

RULES
The game is played with 4 players in teams of two. 44 cards are used, consisting of 4 teams numbered 1 to 11 representing footballers from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales from the 1940s. The object of the game is to move the ball counter into your opponents' goal and thus score. The ball can only be moved along the lines drawn on the playing board. This is achieved by winning tricks as per normal whist. However, trumps are chosen by the starting player who moves the ball onto a team's badge (which become trumps) on the playing board. The winner of the trick may move the ball one space. If the trick is won by leading with a trump, 2 spaces may be moved. When a goal is scored, the ball is returned to the centre spot and the player to the left of the scorer starts. The game ends when the cards are exhausted twice, once for half time and again for the end of the match.