TIDDLEDY WINKS

cover

On cover: "PATENT NOV. 18 1890.".

McLoughlin Bros.

(no catalog number shown on game)

[none]

«TIDDLEDY
WINKS»

PATENT NOV. 18 1890.
McLOUGHLIN BROS. N.Y.

The game comes in a cardboard box with an underbox that has silver diagonals and red splotches. The cover depicts a woman's hand at right with two golden bracelets and a blue and white frilly sleeve

leaflet (4 sides)

"GAME OF TIDDLEDY WINKS", copyrighted 1890 by McLoughlin Bros., including "DIRECTIONS FOR THE ENGLISH GAME" and "DIRECTIONS FOR THE AMERICAN GAME"

English

cardboard box

8 ⅛ inches wide — 4 ½ inches high — 2 inches deep

25.7 cm wide — 52.1 cm high — 5.1 cm deep

Label: yellow border. The inner background at top is light blue, across center, blue, and below, gren and tan.

At right is a lady's arm holding blue squidger against a green wink on a red pad; she has a ring on her ring finger, two bracelets, and a frilly sleeve.

At left is a light brown wooden cup with two sets of circumferential trim. A white wink is just above it, a blue wink is resting to the left, and a green wink is on the playing surface to the pot's right. From left to right, a yellow, green, black, and red wink are in the air.

At upper left, "TIDDLEDY" appears in red with black outline with clear + black shadow. to lower right. "WINKS" is in yellow with black outline with clear + black shadow, starting below the "E".

To the right of "TIDDLEDY", the following appears in red: "PATENT NOV. 18 1890." above "McLOUGHLIN BROS. N.Y."

offwhite with silver diagonals & red splotches

silver diagonals with red splotches pattern, empty.

offwhite

1 urn-shaped shiny natural wooden cup, made on a lathe (2 1/4" at top, 1 3/4" at bottom, several curves).

One copy (copy 1) of the game has the following squidgers and winks:

Bone squidger (1 1/8" in diameter): 1 faded purple, 1 green, 1 white, 1 dark brown, 1 light brown.

Bone winks (5/8" to 11/16"): 5 purple, 6 dark green, 6 white, 5 dark brown, 3 light brown, 4 dark red, 3 orangish-red.

One copy (copy 2) of the game has the following squidgers and winks:

Bone squidger (1 1/8" in diameter): 1 purple, 2 red (broken), 1 offwhite (has a yellow tinge), 1 green (broken), 1 black (broken), 1 yellow.

Bone winks (5/8" to 11/16", some somewhat oval): 6 purple, 6 red, 6 white, 6 green, 8 black, 7 yellow.

A couple of dozen nonoriginal cardboard discs are included.

Rick Tucker