# 46025
NATIONAL GAME COMPANY
[BOARD GAME] Boy scouts. For any number of players.
$330.00 AUD
[Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., c.1920]. “Copyright no. 3273”. Thick board, 310 x 475 mm, folding, original cloth backstrip, fold-out game board printed in colour, small split to fold, exterior sunned, edges rubbed, title label perished, a good copy.
The design features the Australian Red Ensign with seven-pointed Commonwealth star. The Red Ensign was used as the national flag between 1901 and 1954 by State and local governments, private organisations and individuals.
Scarce. The only institutional copy of this game board we can locate is held in the National Library of Australia, while the collection of Museums Victoria has the small box that originally accompanied the board, containing the original playing counters, rules sheet and teetotum.