WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

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Panko or Votes for Women. A complete set of the most popular suffragette card game. "The translation of the mechanics of the women's suffrage campaign into board and card games was a masterstroke... Not only were funds raised, but the message of the cause was brought into domestic circles where more rabid propaganda might not have been welcomed" (Crawford, p. 235).The pack is split into two halves, Suffragist and Anti-Suffragist, both illustrated by the Punch cartoonist Edward Tennyson Reed. The illustrations for the Suffragist suits, coloured in their signature purple and green, include suffragettes bearing the Votes for Women scroll and sash challenging a line of policemen. The illustrations for the Anti-Suffragist suits portray a series of men standing in opposition to the women's cause; one pointed sketch depicts a prison warden offering a meal to a hunger striker, the placard above reading "Holloway Restaurant", with the caption "Faim de siècle".The game, which was distributed by the WSPU, was advertised in Votes for Women in December 1909; the suffragette Mary Blathwayt gave a set of Panko to her mother for Christmas that year.Two variants have been identified. One, as here, features a purple curlicue design on the card versos and the rectos with numbers at opposite corners. The instructions sheet that typically accompanies these is headed "PANKO. Suffragists v. Anti-Suffragists", with ten rules and an extended breakdown of the points system. In the variant, the versos

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