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Stern-Halma Childrens Board Game
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£165.00
Stern-Halma Board Game (the precursor to Chinese Checkers)
This is a classic early-to-mid 20th-century German edition of Halma, specifically the star-shaped variant known as Stern-Halma — which is what the world later renamed Chinese Checkers.
This set was manufactured by BeVo-Wuppertal in Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany. The firm was formed in 1935 by the merger of two family-owned businesses: Lucas Vorsteher and Ewald Vorsteher (brothers). The name BeVo derives from Beteiligung Vorsteher — meaning "Vorsteher Partnership". While widely known today for woven uniform insignia, BeVo also produced board games and educational items under their own product numbering system. This Halma set bears the product reference Nr. 406, consistent with the BeVo catalogue from the 1935–1945 period.