Tipcat (Game)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Tipcat (Game)
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1802
Creator(s): Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)()
Site Location(s): Subject - Gunnerside, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.3787, -2.07916 )
Date(s): August 1967
Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412752
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Mr. John Tom Rutter playing tipcat, or catty, in the garden of his home, Gunnerside ( Swaledale). The game is played with a small stick, sharpened at both ends like a pencil. The stick is placed on the ground, and one of the pointed ends hit with another stick to make it jump. Once in the air, the pointed stick is hit as far as possible. Mr. Rutter demonstrates the game using his walking stick to hit the tipcat.
Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1801. With ms. catalogue details in the hand of Werner Kissling. Card 2 in a series of 4.
Originally held in Photo File: Games.
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