Game Information

"Flip Quoits" is listed in an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald (New South Wales), Saturday 17 December 1898, page 11, column 5 . In addition, imports from Bavaria and Germany were halted during World War I.

Bing Games

19/456E (on rules)

Hexagon with "BING" along top and "GAMES" along bottom, with a die showing a 5-spot between

"BAVARIA" appears below the hexagon

[title Flip Quoits]

[logo BING
GAMES
BAVARIA]

large box (8 1/8" square); "BAVARIA" in cover logo

quoits, hexagram

label inside box lid

"Flip Quoits." "No. 19/456 E.". "3|24". In English.

8⅛ inches wide — 8⅛ inches high — 1⅜ inches deep

20.6 cm wide — 20.6 cm high — 3.5 cm deep

Label with white outer border, then black line.

"Flip Quoits" is shown in red in a semi-script font at top.

Yellow background at top, bottom has table with green tablecloth and game target on it. A boy at left is wearing a blue sailor-like outfit, and is shooting a white or yellow quoit with his right hand. To the right behind the table is a girl wearing a red outfit with black spots, her right arm on the previous boy's back, who is looking on . To the right is a boy wearing a gray suit and red tie looking on. A woman is seated at right, facing left, and is shooting a red quoit.

The logo appears at lower left.

red

Red with no design.

"19/456/1"

The game target has a natural wooden base (7 1/4" square, 1/4" thick), with a shiny paper hexagram target attached.

The paper target has a dull light blue border. A red chain marking appears over the light blue border all around the edges.

The hexagram target has a "15" in the middle yellow circle with a 1/4" tall nail through it.

Outside the yellow circle is a red hexagon with green curlicues on each of the 6 segments. Nails are also placed on the inside and outside vertices of the hexagon. The inside ones have "3" marked under each. The outer ones have "5" marked under each.

Outside the red hexagon is a green hexagram, each with a black flower-like symbol. The outer vertices of the hexagram each have a nail and are marked "10" under each.

Outside the green hexagram segments and inside the outer light blue border are yellow areas. The corner ones have the same flower-like symbol over them.

One copy (copy 1) includes the following:

2 wooden rectangular squidgers (1/4" wide by 2 5/8" long, and less than 1/8" thick).

Quality celluloid quoits (7/8" outer diameter, 1/2" inner diameter, about 1/32" thick): 2 dull red, 2 green, 2 dull yellow, and 2 dull blue.