N° d'objet
2010/20/9/1-13
Titre
Farming,
Créateur
Description
‘Farming’ is a board game in which 3–6 players run a farm for a year and try to finish the farming season with the highest profit. The game was manufactured by Edward Fletcher & Partners in 1982. The game contains a shared game board and individual playing boards, bank notes, and various playing cards. These playing cards, known as ‘crop cards’, represent the crops available in the game – roots, wheat, oats, barley and potatoes. At the start of the game each player chooses which crops they would like to grow, with the remainder of the crop cards being stored in the ‘auction’.
Historique d'archive
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Description: Board game with the title ‘Farming’ which involves each player running their own farm for a year. Box with farming picture on front, main game board, 5 farm homestead boards, stock cards, crop cards, play cards, money etc. See separate list of full contents. Made in Great Britain by Edward Fletcher & Partners, 25 West Park Road, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DB. c. 1982// Dimensions: // Associated information: Purchased as part of the Collecting 20thc Rural Culture project. // References:', Instructions text – ‘The Aim of FARMING // The aim of FARMING is that each farmers should finish the farming season with as large a profit as possible. The farmer with the largest profit at the end of the game is the winner. FARMING also gives the players a realistic insight into the activities that occur on a farm during the course of the year.’, 2010/20/9/1 Crop card: ‘Roots, hay and pastures’ x 6. 2010/20/9/2 Crop card: ‘Potatoes – one ten acre field’ x 6. 2010/20/9/3 Crop card: ‘Potatoes – two ten acre fields’ x 6. 2010/20/9/4 Crop card: ‘Potatoes – three ten acre fields’ x 6. 2010/20/9/5 Crop card: ‘Oats – one ten acre field’ x 6. 2010/20/9/6 Crop card: ‘Oats – two ten acre fields’ x 6. 2010/20/9/7 Crop card: ‘Oats – three ten acre fields’ x 6. 2010/20/9/8 Crop card: ‘Barley – one ten acre field’ x 6. 2010/20/9/9 Crop card: ‘Barley – two ten acre fields’ x 6. 2010/20/9/10 Crop card: ‘Barley – three ten acre fields’ x 6. 2010/20/9/11 Crop card: ‘Wheat – one ten acre field’ x 6. 2010/20/9/12 Crop card: ‘Wheat – two ten acre fields’ x 6. 2010/20/9/13 Crop card: ‘Wheat – three ten acre fields’ x 6.
Lieu de création
Kew
Date
1982 - 1982
Nom d'objet