Game Information

Chad Valley Games (on cover)

The "Chad Valley" Games (on rules)

(no catalog number shown on game)

(none)

EDITION
DE LUXE
CHAD VALLEY
GAMES.

[title Tidleywinks]

MADE AT
HARBORNE
ENGLAND

Top label has a dull red background, silver lettering, no illustration; black interior compartments. Cup has wide stripe at top (red) and bottom (dark blue). Top and apron overlabels are dull red.

tiddlywinks

white label inside box lid

"Rules for Playing the Game of Tidleywinks." and also "REGLE DU JEU. Jeu de TIDLEYWINKS."

6 1/16 inches wide — 5 1/16 inches high — 1⅞ inches deep

15.4 cm wide — 12.9 cm high — 4.8 cm deep

The top label has a medium dull red background.

At left just above center: "EDITION" above "DE LUXE" above "CHAD VALLEY" above "GAMES" (in silver).

Diagonally from lower left to upper right: "Tidleywinks" (in silver script).

At right just below center: "MADE AT" above "HARBORNE" above "ENGLAND".

rules label on black background

Dull red overlabels over the black underlabel at top and bottom, empty

black overlabel over black underlabel

The hand-turned shiny natural wooden cup (1 15/16" top diameter, slightly concave angled sides to a minimum diameter of 1 1/2" at 5/16" from the base, and 1 15/16" bottom diameter) has a 3/8" wide red stripe outside the top rim, a 3/8" wide dark blue stripe above the protrubing base, and two approximately 1/16" nonrecessed black stripes on the protruding base. The bottom of the cup is unfinished.

Copy 1 includes the following quality plastic squidgers and winks with no burrs, which appears to be complete:

Squidgers (1 3/16" diameter, quality plastic, no burrs): 1 teal, 1 dark blue, 1 dark green, 1 white.

Squidgers (1" diameter, quality plastic, no burrs): 1 pale teal, 1 dull yellow, 1 dark green.

Winks (not counted) mostly quality plastic with no burrs, though some reds, dark blues, and dark greens are bone.