This is an interesting game. It uses a squared board for play, and involves moving a square of card around the board. Holes punched into the square reveal the designs on the squares of the board below. The idea is to use the card square to reveal coins (which are then matched by examples from the pot) with the intention of arriving at pre-determined sums.
The winner is the individual who achieves his or her sum correctly. The values are, of course, in pounds, shillings and pence, and the coins are made from card printed in gold and silver to represent the correct look of the original coinage. They imitate guineas and shillings of Edward VII, and are dated to 1905, suggesting 1905 for the initial production date of the game.
The style of it suggests that it might have been issued by either Ordish or, perhaps more likely, Woolley. It may or may not have a link to the Roberts brothers, but it is a very interesting game of precisely the type that they would have developed.
