Game Information

28 November 1930 Streatham News, page 18, column 2, article [link https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004604/19301128/332/0018]: // There were all sorts of things—games, mechanical toys, such as clockwork engines, motor-cars, aeroplanes, and so on

a game called Bijou Golf, although really it is a set of midget golf, which we have been playing so much lately

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28 November 1930 Coventry Herald, page 5, column 4, article [link https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000384/19301128/089/0005]

5 December 1930 Northampton Mercury, page 15, column 4, article [link https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000317/19301205/230/0009]

"Glevum" Series (on cover)

(no catalog number shown on game)

"GLEVUM" SERIES [text only] (on cover)

[title BIJOU GOLF]

Bijou Golf

START

The ideal Golf Game for the table.
The course is laid out ready for play.
No trouble in setting out.

British Manufacture.

"GLEVUM" SERIES.

Made in England.

golf, sandtrap, tiddlywinks

white label under box lid

'"BIJOU GOLF". A NINE HOLE TABLE GAME'

19⅛ inches wide — 8 9/16 inches high — 1¼ inches deep

48.6 cm wide — 21.7 cm high — 3.2 cm deep

The top label has a yellow background.

(On Copy 1: Gummed paper has been applied to top edges and aprons as a repair.)

"BIJOU" appears at upper left with semi-fancy letters, underlined. The middle of the cover depicts the target, with "Bijou Golf" on curve at top with numbered holes (6, 4, 3, 1, 9, and 7) and obstacles. "GOLF" appears at upper right with semi-fancy letters, underlined.

Below "BIJOU" is "The ideal Golf Game for the table." above "The course is laid out ready for play." above "No trouble in setting out."

At lower left: "British Manufacture."

At bottom center: "GLEVUM" (in quotes) and then "SERIES."

At lower right: "Made in England."

red

white rules label on tan

Red with no design.

gray with edges of red wraparound paper on box bottom

The green felt playing surface is 34 1/2" wide by 16 1/4" tall. Surface (golf course) has 9 light green colored cardboard rings (1 1/2" outer diameter, 1" inner diameter) attached that act as golf holes. Each ring is marked with a hole number. From top: 2, 6 and 4, 8, 3 and 1, 5, 9 and 7. Surface also has hazards of triangular elongated wood (green) by holes 3, 2, and 1; square brick-like wood by hole 4; wide green triangle wood by hole 6; green triangle plus flat mottled red rectangle at hole 9; and white sandtrap with brown border next to hole 7.

2 colored wooden pieces (11/16" diameter by 1/4" high): 1 black, 1 green.

"Bijou Golf" refers to miniature or midget golf courses (Dundee Courier, 12 September 1930, page 11, column 2, [link https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19300912/161/0011]