Antique toys to play with
February 1st, 2010 by the writerMany children enjoy a game of Pick Up Sticks. The game dates from the 1700s when it was known as Jackstraws. In common with other antique toys, it’s gone in and out of fashion and is enjoying a surge of interest at the moment. Many parents are delighted to see toys from their own childhood back in the shops, so they can pass them on to the next generation.
Whipping tops are said to have come from the Far East and Native American tribes played with them in the frozen north on the ice. They became very fashionable in Victorian England and the craze was exported back to America, an example of antique toys going in a circle.
Ball and bat games have been played for a long time in one form or another, leading to the eventual modern pastimes of baseball, cricket and rounders.
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