Sweet Bridal Bells

Rick Tucker estimate since imports from Bavaria and Germany were halted during World War I.

Bing Series

Bavaria

19/457 E (on rules)

Octagon with "BING on die at top and "SERIES" inside below + Bavaria below

«Sweet
Bridal Bells»
a fascinating game.

[logo BING
SERIES
Bavaria.

wedding, bride, bell, church, wedding gown, groom, flower, rose, tower, bell tower

label inside box lid

"Sweet Bridal Bells."
"No. 19/457 E."
Different logo than box cover: hexagon with BING at top, die, then GAMES at bottom.

cardboard box

7 ⅛ inches wide — 11 ⅝ inches high — 1 ⅜ inches deep

22.5 cm wide — 36.5 cm high — 4.1 cm deep

Label with textured surface, off-white background, and a dull purple border.

At top, greenery and red roses appear, with two golden bells hanging, one at left, the other at right.

Below, "Sweet" appears above "Bridal Bells" in semi-script letters, each with red in the top 3/4s, brown-red in bottom 1/4, with black outline. "a fascinating game." is below in orange-red. The title is shown on a light-yellow background in the top third of the cover, with green border touching the outer dull purple border.

The main illustration below shows a bride (in white wedding gown, red across her forehead, and carrying white cut flowers with green leaves) and groom (in black suit, with a flower in his lapel). The bride's wedding train is held up with both hands by a girl wearing pink.

Behind her is a boy wearing a light blue outfit, and to the left, a girl in a golden-yellow dress.

At rear are onlookers standing in the pews, with the church entryway and walls in the background.

The logo appears at bottome right in black.

red

Red with no design.

"19/457/2"

The target is a golden-colored metal bell, which is attached by a yellow thread to a square (3 3/8") piece of cardboard with clipped corners. The bell assembly sits on top of a cardboard tower (6 5/8" tall, 3 3/8" wide on each side) that depicts gray stones with black grout. The tops of the tower edges have 1/4" alternating notches.

One copy (copy 1) of this game includes the following quality plastic squidgers and winks with no burrs:

Squidgers (1" diameter): 2 green, 1 yellow, 1 yellowish offwhite, 3 black, 1 dark blue, and 3 red.

Winks (5/8" diameter): 8 green, 1 white, 8 yellow, 8 black, 7 dark blue, and 7 red.

Rick Tucker