FLYING BIRDS

"Glevum" Series

UK

"Glevum" Seies [text only]

«FLYING BIRDS»

BRITISH MANUFACTURE

"Glevum" Series

MADE IN ENGLAND

bird, nest

label under box lid

"FLYING BIRDS"

cardboard box

11 ¾ inches wide — 7 ¼ inches high — 1 ½ inches deep

71.8 cm wide — 45.1 cm high — 14 cm deep

Label with white outer border then black line.

"FLYING BIRDS" (red with black then green outline) at top center.

Yellow/orange bird flying in from right of center with worm in mouth; one wing is partially covered by title and the other partially covers title. Bird is flying toward green nest on tree limb in which there are 4 chicks with beaks open.At upper right is sky with some clouds plus a variety of birds flying. Notional hills appear at lower right. Tree branches are at upper left.

At lower left: "BRITISH MANUFACTURE".

At bottom center: "Glevum" (in quotes) and then "Series".

At bottom right: "MADE IN" above "ENGLAND".

red

Red with no design.

gray with edges of red wrap-around paper on box bottom

Shallow cardboard bowl (6 1/8" diameter by 5/8" tall) is target into which to catapult birds.

4 catapult levers (5 1/4" long by 1 5/8" maximum width by 3/8" high on green wooden pivot). Each depicts a house (red roof, red door, crosshatched windows) at lower end (where person presses down) and electrical wires on poles on the end where the birds are places to be catapulted.

Birds to be catapulted have wings spread out (3" maximum wide by 2" maximum long by 1/2" wooden dowel attached to bottom with rounded metal piece nailed on): 4 red, 4 dark blue.

Rick Tucker