Our final fish game is “Go Fish,” published in 1951 by Ed-U-Cards. The fronts are simple fields of color, the backs show this cheerful specimen.
In later editions, this has been adapted into a flipbook; if you arrange the cards in the proper order, the fish blows bubbles.
As a lagniappe, I’ll add this interesting miniature board game, part of a gameboard published in 1938 by the Transogram Company. No less than 13 games are crammed onto one remarkable piece of cardboard. No. 11 is all about fish (click on it to see it in more detail).
(Posted by Doug Skinner)
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1 mamie // Apr 1, 2010 at 2:51 pm
That board gam is stunning!
2 Gail // Apr 2, 2010 at 9:08 pm
I love how the blobby blue back is so different from the lively front and that board game is gorgeous. From a distance (and with bad eyesight) it looks like a rose art nouveau pattern too.