Game Information

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McLoughlin Bro's

(no catalog number shown on game)

[none]

[title IMPROVED GAME
TIDDLEDY
WINKS]

PATENT NOV. 18 1890.

McLlughlin Bro's New York

The game cover is marked as "PATENT NOV. 18 1890". The game comes in a cardboard box with a dark blue underbox. The multicolor cover depicts a frog smoking a pipe and holding a fishing rod.

animal, tiddlywinks, frog, pipe, fishing rod, anthropomorphic, cattail, anthropomorphic

leaflet (4 sides)

"Copyrighted, 1890, by McLoughlin Bros." "GAME OF TIDDLEDY WINKS."

8 inches wide — 4½ inches high — 1⅝ inches deep

20.3 cm wide — 11.4 cm high — 4.1 cm deep

Blue speckled box. Label: cyan border. The box background at top is yellow from left to near the right, where it becomes light green.

"IMPROVED GAME" are in letters that are orange at top, black at bottom, with a black outline plus a green/gray shadow to the lower right.

Each letter in "TIDDLEDY" appears in white with a black shadow on winks of various colors (blue, orange, red, green, orange, blue, red, and green), each of which have legs.

At lower left, a green frog (eith red short pants and a yellow belly) is sitting on a fence, smoking a long pipe and holding a fishing rod.

"WINKS" appears in yellow with a black outline on an red "canvas" held by a wood frame that connects to the fence.

"PATENT NOV. 18 1890." appears above the "WINKS" canvas and wood frame.

"McLoughlin Bro's New-York" is shown below the "WINKS" canvas and frame.

Tall grass appears at left, and short grass at bottom.

mottled dark blue

blue speckled, empty

offwhite

1 natural wood cup (2" diameter at top, 1 5/8" diameter at bottom, 1 3/8" tall) with two double rings around side.

One copy (copy 4) of this game has 2 such cups.

One copy (copy 1) of this game includes the following squidgers and winks:

Bone squidger (1 5/16"): extra-dark-blue.

Clay squidger (1 1/4"): 1 green (2 pieces glued together), 1 white, 1 blue (3 pieces glued).

Clay winks (5/8"): 2 dark green, 4 dark yellow, 5 white, 6 dark blue, 3 medium blue, 3 red.

Small bone (5/8"): 1 white.

Nonoriginal white cardboard: (3/4"): 3 white.

Another copy (copy 3) of this game includes the following squidgers and winks:

Bone squidger (1 1/16"): 1 dark purple, 1 purple, 1 yellow, 1 white, 1 dark green

Small bone (11/16"): 2 blue, 2 purple, 2 yellow, 5 white,; (5/8"): 1 white, 1 black, 4 green, 3 red, 2 orange.

The copy also includes nonoriginal cardboard discs of various colors and sizes, plus a black round, thick wooden piece.

Another copy (copy 4) of this game includes the following squidgers and winks:

Clay squidger (1 1/4"): 1 dull dark red, 1 dull dark blue, 1 dull dark green, 1 white, 1 yellow.

Bone squidger (1 1/8"): 1 bright red, 1 white, 1 green, 1 orange-red.

Clay winks (11/16"): 6 dull dark red, 6 dull dark blue, 5 dull dark green, 5 white, 4 yellow, 5 blue.

Bone winks (5/8"): 6 orange, 4 red (nearly indistinguishable from the oranges), 6 white, 4 dark green.

The copy also includes nonoriginal cardboard discs of various colors.

Another copy (copy 5) of this game includes the following squidgers and winks:

Clay squidger (1 1/4"): 1 black.

Clay winks (11/16"): 1 black, 3 red, 2 white, 1 light blue, 2 yellow.

Bone wink (11/16"): 1 red (chipped)

The copy also includes nonoriginal cardboard discs of various colors, plus 1 red wooden wink (5/8")