TIDDLEDY-WINKS AT SEA

1913 Gamage catalog

1925-1926 Jaques & Son trade catalog

J. Jaques & Son Ld.

6926 (in contemporaneous Jaques trade catalog)

«TIDDLEDY-WINKS AT SEA.»

A GAME
OF
"COUNTER" ATTACK.

PUBLISHED BY J. JAQUES & SON. LD.

B.C.d.

This variety comes in a cloth box and contains two model ship targets.

B. C. (artist, indicated by "d." ("delineavit")

military, Navy, sea, ocean, explosion

2 shillings plus 3 pence post (in 1913 Gamages trade catalog)

2 shillings 6 pence (in ad provided by Michael Thomson)

5 shillings (in contemporaneous Jaques trade catalog)

cardboard box

13 ⅛ inches wide — 5 inches high — 2 inches deep

41.6 cm wide — 12.7 cm high — 5.1 cm deep

The label has a white outer border, then a black line.

At top, "TIDDLEDY-WINKS AT SEA." is shown in red with black outline over the gray sky background.

Below, to left, is "A GAME" over "OF" over |"COUNTER" ATTACK.| in black over the gray sky background.

A battleship fills the left 3/4 of the cover. An explosion is shown at or behind it at left. It has two cylindrical turrets with smoke emitting upward and to the right from them, plus two poles each with two landing stations on them. The forward cannon on the top side of the ship is shooting forward to the right.

"PUBLISHED BY J. JAQUES & SON. LD." is shown at lower left.

"B.C.d." appears in the lower right, identifying the artist (B.C.), as noted by the abbreviation "d.", standing for "delineavit".

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Rick Tucker

1913 · A. W. Gamage Ltd. · Gamage's Christmas bazaar · page 222 · note: Illustration of cover. · (catalog)