About The Games Board Members

• Researching Georgian Victorian and Edwardian games toys and puzzles
• Catalogueing over 1500 games in the Ballam collection
• British games makers and their products 1750-1910 particularly Wallis, Darton, Betts, Ogilvy, Jaques, Ayres etc.
• Use of games and toys as educational aids.

Published articles on Spellicans, Dissected Puzzles and old Table Games, Horse Racing Games, Solitaire and other turned boards, Tops, Tetotums and spinning toys. (All in The Antique Collector)

• Board games particularly Halma/Hopity, Pachisi, Snakes and Ladders ancestry, the Tafl family.
• Pub Games especially Skittles, Quoits.
• Croquet, Pall Mall, Ground Billiards etc.
• Bowls including relationship/confusion with skittle games.
• Bagatelle, Shuffleboard, Nine Holes, Trou Madame family
• Crokinole, Squails

Runs Masters Traditional Games, an on-line shop.

Author of the On-line Guide to Traditional Games.

Webmaster for this site.

• Victorian and Georgian Indoor games
• History of English playing counters
• History of English Whist markers

Games inventor

Managing director ZZota Ltd., founded 1976, Current games available:

• Snark!
• Counter Intelligence
• The M Pack (playing cards for the 3rd Millenium)
• Triplica

• The history and origins of the games made by Jaques.
• All games in the Jaques 1862 Catalogue *.
• All card games listed in the Jaques 1895 List of Card Games.
• The link between Jaques and D. Ogilvy.
• The connection between Jaques and Hamley Brothers for the development of the game of Ping Pong and the link with Parker Brothers in the USA.