Game Information

Spear Series (on cover)

J. W. Spear & Sons (on cover)

5076/1 (on rules)

"SPEAR" over "SERIES" on a dagger (on cover)

[title LITTLE KITTENS
TIDLEY-WINK GAME]

Designed in England

[logo SPEAR
SERIES]

J. W. Spear & Sons
London

Made at the Spear Works Bavaria

The cover shows 3 kittens standing on their front legs, wearing bows. The title does not include "Three".

tiddlywinks, kitten, cat

pink label under box lid

"THE LITTLE KITTENS" with "No. 5076/1."

8⅞ inches wide — 7⅝ inches high — 1⅛ inches deep

22.5 cm wide — 19.4 cm high — 2.9 cm deep

Top label: white outer border then interior brown outline of the main cover art.

At top on a very pale pink background: "LITTLE KITTENS" (wavy letters) with "L" and "K" in red and the rest in blue with brown outlines. Below on the very pale pink background is "TIDLEY WINK" at left and "GAME." to right in extra-serifed characters.

The main illustration fills the bottom three-quarters of the cover, with a blue background at top behind the kittens and tan at the bottom where the kittens are standing. Three cats are shown, the left two mostly brown with some white and the right one mostly white. The left kitten is wearing a pink ribbon around its neck and is looking right. The center kitten is taller and sports a yellow ribbon. The right kitten is wearing a green ribbon.

At lower left: "Designed in England" (in brown).

At bottom center: the logo "SPEAR" over "SERIES" on a dagger.

At lower right: "J. W. Spear & Sons" above "London".

Below: "Made at the Spear Works Bavaria"

red

rules label

Red with no design.

brown overlabel

Two cats in one vertical cardboard target piece (7 1/16" maximum width, 7 1/4" maximum height, 1" deep. The left cat is black with yellow eyes; the right cat is grey and white with green eyes. Each mouth is cut out as a hole for winks, round at the bottom with two rounded sections at top. There is a also a round hole beneath each paw. Those holes are numbered, from left-to-right: 2, 4, 1, 5.

Copy 1 of this game includes the following:

1 squidger (1 5/16" diameter): white, red, yellow, deep purple

4 winks (21/32" diameter): white, red, yellow, deep purple