Playing Cards game deck called "Golliwog" by Thos. De La Rue & Co. Ltd., 48-card set, after designs by Florence K. Upton.
This pack of cards was used to play a game similar to Happy Families and featured characters from a popular series of books written in the 1890s and early 1900s by Bertha and Florence Upton. Bertha wrote the stories in verse and Florence drew the pictures, using as inspiration her childhood toys - a black leather faced doll she had allegedly acquired at a fair when she lived in the United States, and some wooden dolls. Although it is likely that Florence's toy was based on the Minstrel tradition in the United States, her fictional Golliwogg was a friendly, brave and adventurous character.
