TIDDLEDY WINKS

rules

© 1890 McLoughlin Bros.

On cover: "PATENT NOV. 18 1890."

McLoughlin Bros.

(no catalog number shown on game)

[none]

«TIDDLEDY
WINKS»

PATENT NOV. 18 1890.
McLOUGHLIN BROS. N.Y.

The underbox is dark blue. The cover shows a woman's hand at right with two golden bracelets and a blue and white frilly sleeve.

50 cents (written by hand in pencil on the cover)

leaflet (4 sides)

"GAME OF TIDDLEDY WINKS", copyrighted 1890 By McLoughlin Bros., including "DIRECTIONS FOR THE ENGLISH GAME" and "DIRECTIONS FOR THE AMERICAN GAME"

cardboard box

8 inches wide — 4 ⅜ inches high — 2 inches deep

20.3 cm wide — 13.7 cm high — 5.1 cm deep

Label: yellow border. The inner background at top is light blue, across center, blue, and below, gren and tan.

At right is a lady's arm holding blue squidger against a green wink on a red pad; she has a ring on her ring finger, two bracelets, and a frilly sleeve.

At left is a light brown wooden cup with two sets of circumferential trim. A white wink is just above it, a blue wink is resting to the left, and a green wink is on the playing surface to the pot's right. From left to right, a yellow, green, black, and red wink are in the air.

At upper left, "TIDDLEDY" appears in red with black outline with clear + black shadow. to lower right. "WINKS" is in yellow with black outline with clear + black shadow, starting below the "E".

To the right of "TIDDLEDY", the following appears in red: "PATENT NOV. 18 1890." above "McLOUGHLIN BROS. N.Y."

dark blue

Blue with no design.

offwhite

1 urn-shaped shiny natural wooden cup, made on a lathe (2 1/4" at top, 1 3/4" at bottom, several curves).

1 large (1 1/8") and 6 small (5/8") each of brown, red, green, orange/yellow, white, purple/blue (except 5 small of purple/blue); many nonoriginal cardboard disks

Rick Tucker