LITTLE KITTENS TIDLEY-WINK GAME

Spear Game Archive

Spear's Games (on cover)

J. W. S. & S. (on cover)

Bavaria

5076/1 (on rules)

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

"MADE BY" then "J. W. S. & S." over "BAVARIA" on dagger (on cover)

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The cover shows a kitten at left with front paws on a reclining cat at center; cat with ball at right. Both oval and dagger logos appear on cover. The rules are printed directly under the box lid in black, filling the entire space, with an advertisement for Springrings, Bobby Bonzo, and Skee Ball at bottom.

kitten, cat

printed under box lid with three advertisements below.

"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: the logo "MADE BY" then "J. W. S. & S." over "BAVARIA" on a dagger, with "REGISTERED TRADEMARK" below.

red

printed rules on tan

Red with no design.

medium gray overlabel

One copy (Copy 1) includes white/green cards (1 1/4" x 1 3/4"), numbered in yellow 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.

Winks (5/8" diameter): 3 deep purple, 4 green, 4 red, 4 yellow.

Rick Tucker

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