'PANK-A-SQUITH' BOARD GAME 'PANK-A-SQUITH', complete set, comprising the coloured printed board depicting a spiral of illustrated squares within a purple, green and white striped border, six metal figures representing suffragettes in different colours, original rules sheet and cardboard cup and dice (the latter not original but contemporary), folding board with centre hinge, green 'lizard' patterned outer boards, 'Pank-a-Squith' embossed in gold, 450 x 450mm., figures in custom-made modern box, slight wear, one hat damaged, Germany, 1909 Footnotes: COMPLETE SET OF PANK-A-SQUITH WITH ORIGINAL PLAYING PIECES & SHEET OF RULES: Named for the key opponents in the struggle for votes for women, Emmeline Pankhurst and the then Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, this rare and attractive board game was first advertised in Votes for Women on 22 October 1909, where is was described as a 'highly artistic TABLE GAME that helps to spread the movement'. It was one of several games sold via the Women's Social and Political Union in order to disseminate propaganda and raise funds. The aim of the game was to reach the Houses of Parliament and the goal of Universal Suffrage whilst encountering various events and difficulties along the way. Square 6, for example, shows a suffragette breaking the windows of the Home Office, 16 exhorts the player to 'send a penny to Suffragette Funds' and square 43 depicts the forced feeding of hunger strikers. Other squares represent Holloway Prison and the Great Votes for Women Demonstrations in Hyde Park. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing