Game Information
Chas. H. Belknap Co. (publisher) AGPI # · P-347Full Publisher Info
The Game Sensation Grasshopper Tennis (game title) AGPI # · G-29804
Tucker Tiddlywinks # · 
BEL-01
Title Source · 
cover
Title, Preserving Case

THE GAME SENSATION Grasshopper Tennis

Title Language · 
English
Date · 
1916 
Date Source(s)

rules

Date Source(s) · Trade Catalog(s)

Sears catalog 1919 (in Schroeder book from 1971, page 231, with an illustration of the cover of a game.)

Sears catalog 1919

Sears catalog 1920

Patent Info on Game

On cover: "PATENT APPLIED FOR".

Publisher Name on Game

Chas. H. Belknap

Publication Location on Game

46-48 Fulton Street, New York, New York, USA

Publisher Mark(s)

[none]

Cover Text

THE GAME SENSATION

«Grasshopper Tennis»
(PATENT APPLIED FOR)

INTERESTING, AMUSING
AND WHOLESOME

CHAS. H. BELKNAP

46-48 Fulton Street
BROOKLYN BORO, N.Y.

Variant Description

The price is not preprinted on the cover. "THE GAME SENSATION" appears on the cover. "CHAS. H. BELKNAP" and address also appears on the cover. Dark green felt is included in the game.

Game Type · 
tiddlywinks
Keywords

tennis, grasshopper, net, racket

Number of Players · 
2, 3, or 4
Price

97 cents (1919 and 1920 Sears catalogs)

Rules Format

leaflet (quadrifold, 8 sides, 1 empty) printed in green ink

Rules Overview

"GRASSHOPPER TENNIS"

Container Type

cardboard box

Container Size · (measured in inches)

12 inches wide — 13 inches high — ⅜ inches deep

30.5 cm wide — 33 cm high — 1 cm deep

Cover Description

The box background is green. The label attached to the cover has an offwhite background. All lettering is in black. Black rectangular frame surrounds a green illustration that has grasshoppers at the ends and inside a tennis court and at courtside. The tennis net is a web; a web also appears in the upper right. The game is shown being played on grass with occasional plants around.

Apron Descriptions

green, empty

Contents

Copy 2 includes a folding sheet with a general-purpose announcement of a // Championship "Grasshopper Tennis Tournment" //, including blank lines for adding dates, times, etc. The reverse includes examples of scoresheets and a regime for conducting a tournament with up to 50 competitors.

Tiddlywinks Targets

The dark green felt tennis court is mounted inside the box top and box bottom with a hinge between them. The court measures 11 3/4" x 26" with marked areas ("DRIVE", "ACE", "CUT SHOT", "SMASH") and fabric mesh net held up by metal spikes.

Winks

Wooden tennis rackets (natural in hitting area, colored at handle) (3 1/8" long, 1/4" to 1 1/4" wide): 1 black, 1 teal, 2 pink. Small bone winks (5/8"): 4 white

Tiddlywinks Felt · 
The dark green felt tennis court is mounted inside the box top and box bottom with a hinge between them.
Collection • Individual(s)

Rick Tucker

More Sources

Bruce Whitehill, Games, American Boxed Games and Their Makers, 1822-1992, With Values, Radnor, Pennsylvania: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, © 1992, page 152.

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