LITTLE KITTENS TIDLEY-WINK GAME

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Spear's Games (on cover)

Bavaria

5076/1 (on rules)

"SPEAR'S GAME" in oval (on cover)

(none)

«LITTLE KITTENS
TIDLEY-WINK GAME»

«SPEAR'S GAMES»

MANUFACTURED AT THE SPEAR WORKS, BAVARIA.

The cover shows a kitten at left with front paws on a reclining cat at center; cat with ball at right. The cover has an oval logo but not the company's dagger logo. The rules label is printed in red, includes an ad for Piggeries, and fills all of the space under the box lid.

kitten, cat

tan label under box lid with red text and an advertisement with illustrations

"THE LITTLE KITTENS. A new Flipping Game played with bone counters."

cardboard box

9 ¼ inches wide — 7 11/16 inches high — 1 3/16 inches deep

57.8 cm wide — 112.9 cm high — 2.1 cm deep

Top label: White border and interior black outline framing the main cover art.

"LITTLE KITTENS" with "L" and "K" in red and the rest in light blue with black borders and offset shadows of the light blue background and black. Below on an angled tan background: "TIDLEY-WINK GAME" in light blue with black outline.

The bottom two-thirds of the cover depicts three kittens. A tan kitten appears at left, a large two-tone brown plus white cat at center, and a gray/black/white kitten at right playing with a green/white/red ball.

At lower left: the logo "SPEAR'S GAMES" in an oval (in black)

At lower right: "MANUFACTURED AT THE SPEAR WORKS, BAVARIA."

red

rules label on tan

red, no design

medium brown overlabel

One copy (Copy 1) includes white/green cards (1 1/4" x 1 3/4"), numbered in purple with 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Stand-up cardboard target (7" wide x 7 1/4" tall x 1" deep) depicting two kittens (black one with yellow eyes, and white one with green eyes). Cats have holes at their mouths (one round at bottom, two rounds at top) where wink will enter. Wink will exit below their front paws, which are numberd 2, 4, 1, and 5.

Copy 1 includes the following:

Deeply-colored bone with a matte finish, packaged in glassine.

1 squidger: (1" diameter): deep purple, green, red, yellow.

4 winks (5/8" diameter): deep purple, green, red, yellow.

Rick Tucker

© 1984 · Alice L. Muncaster and Ellen Yanow Sawyer · Crown Publishers, Inc. · (New York) · The Cat Made Me Buy It! · page 63 · note: Photograph of cover and contents in color. · (book)

© 1991 · Ralph M. and Terry H. Kovel · The [Kovel's] complete antiques price list; 24th edition; 1992 · page 347 · (periodical)