J. W. Spear and Sons was a manufacturer of board games during the 20th century. The company was founded by Jacob Wolf Spier (1832-1893) in Fürth, near Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany in 1879. They initially produced goods such as table mats, photo frames, and waste-paper baskets. By the turn of the century, games had become their main product.

In 1932, the company set up a factory in Brimsdown, Enfield, Britain to avoid customs duties. With the rise to power of the Nazis and the Spier family being Jewish, some members of the family moved to Britain and subsequently Anglicised their name to Spear. The Nuremberg factory was forcibly "purchased" by a German businessman, and survived most of World War II under Nazi control until the Royal Air Force bombed it. The UK factory switched to military production during the war and then returned to making games.

The Lotto game is housed in a cardboard box with the word 'Lotto' embossed in silver on the lid.  At the bottom left of the lid is the 'Spear's Games' logo and at the bottom right, there is the spear logo with the words 'J.W.S & S Baavaria' marked.  The Lotto cards are made of very thick paper and the 'counters' are housed in a Players Medium Cut tobacco tin.  The counters appear to be home made as they are of slightly differing sizes.

The Tidley Winks (sp) game is housed in a cardboard box.  There is a wooden cup for players to aim for and a selection of plastic counters of differing sizes contained in a Glycerine Pastilles tin.  The box describes the game as being of 'British Manufacture' and 'Made in England'.

The Crown & Anchor Board Game had a board made of card and a wooden cup with wooden cubical counters.

The set of rainbow dominoes was for teaching children to count & match colours.  The box states that the product was made in England and was also of British Manufacture.  It also says that the dominoes are from the Glevum Series.  Glevum Games was the principal trade name used by a firm established in Gloucester in 1894 by Harry Owen Roberts and his younger brother John Owen Roberts.

The set of 5 jacks are roughly cubic in shape with 2 indented scores on each of the 4 sides.  They are ceramic and cream in colour.