Firm In Search For Beatles Bingo Game!!
The search is on for a rare piece of Beatles memorabilia which was manufactured in Marlow in the 60s but has since disappeared. A limited number of the Beatles Bingo game was made by a company called Toy Works, which was based in the town and a specialist collectors’ company are now hoping to find one. Very little is known about Toy Works and even less about the elusive bingo game.
Tracks, which says it is the world’s leading specialist in Beatles and rare pop memorabilia, is trying to trace the item which in its original box can be worth more than £2,000.
Tracks spokesman Jason Cornthwaite said: “It’s the strangest piece of Beatles memorabilia I have come across. It’s so elusive and we can’t even find a decent picture of it.”
The game was first spotted by a company in a photograph taken by the late Beatles photographer, Dezo Hoffman, which was published in two fans’ magazines in 1964. the pictures shows a mock up of a typical Beatles fans’ room from the 60s decorated with Beatles wallpaper and various items of Beatles merchandise, including the game.
Beatles merchandize was also normally accompanied by promotional material like posters and advertising but none has ever surfaced relating the bingo game. After hours of research all the company discovered was that it was made by a company called Toy Works, based in Marlow, and owned by a man called Lolek Holzer.
The factory is believed to have been located on the current Court Garden swimming pool site, alongside another factory, called Crauford Engineering Works.
