General Knowledge card game
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca.1820
"General Knowledge" is an educational card game published in England around 1820. The surviving set contains 46 cards made of paper card, printed using the letterpress technique.
The game consists of two types of cards: seven question cards, each displaying a series of numbered questions, and 39 cards that each present a single answer. Visually, the cards feature printed black text arranged in columns or paragraphs on rectangular, pale card stock. The answer cards derive from two distinct alphabetical sequences, A–Z and aa–zz.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
The game was designed to be played by any number of players. This particular group of 46 cards survives from an incomplete set.
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- England
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection record for this single object; how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Museum object name
- general knowledge
- Museum object number
- E.239:1to46-1953
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.