The POPULAR GAME of Scout Tiddlywinks

1929 Roberts Brothers catalog in Malcolm J. Watkins email to Rick Tucker (24 December 2020).

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«The
POPULAR GAME
of
Scout
Tiddlywinks»

BRITISH
MANUFACTURE

medium gray with edges of the red box bottom overlabel.

scout, Boy Scout, uniform

18 shillings per dozen (catalog: 1929)

white label under box lid

"Clown or Scout Tidleywink Game."

cardboard box

6 ¼ inches wide — 15 5/16 inches high — 1 inches deep

38.7 cm wide — 24.6 cm high — 2.5 cm deep

205.0 grams

7.2 ounces

The top label has an offwhite background.

At top, the title of the game: "The" (in black) above "POPULAR GAME" (black wth green outline) above "of" (in black), above "Scout Tiddlywinks" (in red with black shadow and a gray shadow down and to the right).

Below is an illustration of a scout (brown hat and jacket, bluish-grey short pants and gray socks and shoes, with red neck scarf) who is holding a white tray with 3 winks landing on it. The scout is standing on a round white area that has a bit of a purple plume. Several other winks are shown, to the left and right of the scout's legs.

"BRITISH" above MANUFACTURE" (in red) appears at bottom.

red

white rules label on medium tan-gray

Red with no design.

The stand-up cardboard target depicts a Boy Scout, with some embossing in his face, chest, and hands. A mostly oval cardboard dish (3 3/16" wide, 2 1/8" maximum height) fits into a slot to appear as if scout is holding it in his hands. The bottom of the target bends in half above the shoes, thereby allowing the target to stand up with the top of the shoes intending to snap into slots at the bottom of the legs. The overall height of this target, unbent, is 13 5/16" and 10 13/16" bent. The maximum width of the scout target at top around his elbows is 5". The width of the scout target at the bending point near the bottom is about 5 1/4". The bending base of the scout is a circle with a diameter of about 5 1/4".

Copy 1 includes:

Squidgers (7/8" diameter, plastic): 1 dull red, 1 dark blue, 1 white.

Winks (1/2" diameter, unknown material): 4 dark blue, 8 white, 3 blue (partially eroded).

Rick Tucker