Antique 19th Century Halma Board Game Published by Woolley & Co London c.1890
Game of Halma - an abstract strategy board game invented in the late 19th century.
This boxed example is fully complete and comes with a small paper instruction leaflet.
Made by - Woolley & Co of London. Operating roughly from 1836 to 1904/1905 and was a well-known British manufacturer of playing cards and traditional indoor card and board games.
Comes with a Halma games board too - the board has been made by Feltham & co - a historic 19th-century wholesale manufacturer of indoor and outdoor sports equipment, established in 1834 at the City Steam Works in the Barbican, London
The main objective of the game is to move all of your pieces from your starting corner (camp) into the opposing corner and the first player to fill their target camp wins the game.
