John Johnson Collection: Johnson Adds
Ballam Collection of Games and Pastimes
Alphabetical listing with shelfmarks
Index created by JAL from records by Gill Short May 2024
The full shelfmarks are in the following form (with Ballam Collection abbreviated to Ballam
Coll in SOLO):
The games are arranged in three main sequences: by decade, by the form or type of the
material, and by publisher.
Please note that the following are shelfmark roots only and that the shelfmarks in the table
below are in an abbreviated form.
For board games, individual records often have two components: one for the board and
another for the pieces. It is necessary to order both. Please use the Johnson online catalogue
(https://allegro.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/johnson/)for the full descriptions and shelfmarks.
Shelfmark roots (decades)
Ballam Collection: Games: 1790s, Ballam Collection: Games1800s (1) etc to Ballam
Collection: Games 2000s
Shelfmark roots (by form)
Ballam Collection: Games: Accessories
Ballam Collection: Bricks and Blocks
Ballam Collection: Card Games
Ballam Collection: Dissected Puzzles
Ballam Collection: Facsimiles
Ballam Collection: Meccano books
Ballam Collection: Party Games
Ballam Collection: Spoof
Ballam Collection: Teaching Aids
Ballam Collection: Toys