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[title Crack-Shot
TABLE RANGE]

BRITISH
INVENTION

BRITISH
MANUFACTURE

PATENT APPLIED FOR

A MOST FASCINATING GAME

Contains 5 targets; original price (marked inside box lid) 3 shillings 6 pence

offwhite label under box lid

"Crack-Shot" "TABLE RANGE", "Small Size Five-Set Price - 3/6", "Large Size Seven-Set Price - 5/6". "Instructions to Set up Game.". "Instructions to Play Game."

9 3/16 inches wide — 4½ inches high — 1⅝ inches deep

23.3 cm wide — 11.4 cm high — 4.1 cm deep

The top label has a white outer border, then a black outline around the main cover art. The main background is orange.

"Crack-Shot" (in white with black outline) appears at top center; "C" has an extended baseline under all letters. "TABLE RANGE" is below in black. All appears on a very pale orange oval.

"BRITISH" over "INVENTION" appears at mid-upper left and "BRITISH" above "MANUFACTURE" at mid-upper right.

At bottom is a white table surface. A woman is seated in a chair at left, a boy wearing a tie is standing at the table corner just to right of center, pointing to the left, and a man wearing a suit is sitting in a chair, looking left, and is shooting using a stylus. A girl is standing at right, looking on.

"A MOST FASCINATING GAME" appears at bottom, outlined within a banner, all in black.

"PATENT APPLIED FOR" is at lower left in black.

dark blue with a leatherette texture

rules label

dark blue, empty

The box bottom has a continuation of the dark blue label with a leatherette texture. Five holes with metal grommets are in the box bottom.

The box bottom is used as part of the target. It has 5 holes in it, each with a metal "collar" through it from the bottom. The metal collars measure 3/8" in diameter except on one end, which is 5/8" in diameter and under the bottom of the box. The box bottom has a shorter lower apron, measuring 3/4" high. 3 of the metal collars are in a line near the short apron, and behind it are the other 2.

5 white plastic cylindrical rods (1 1/2" long, 5/16" long) are inserted into the 5 metal collars.

5 white plastic cylindrical rods (3/4" long, 5/16" long), called skittles, with one end rounded with 3 recessed circles near that end, are placed on top of the longer white pieces.

The winks, called "pellets" (1/2" in bottom diameter, and about 1/4" tall) are round at bottom where they are concave. On top, they curve up to an oval area that is mostly open on the short ends and inside. 2 pellets are provided in each of red, white, and blue.

The squidger is a wooden stick with a golden metal ring near the tip, and have a white plastic stylus attached at the tip.

A rectangular clear glass plate (3 1/2" wide, 3" deep, and 1/4" tall) is used as the shooting surface for the winks. The wooden stick is applied to a pellet on the glass plate to shoot them at the target, aiming to knock off the skittles.