THE GAME of HATS-OFF

Glevum Series

UK

GLEVUM SERIES (red, in black oval)

«THE GAME OF HATS-OFF»

BRITISH MANUFACTURE

«GLEVUM SERIES»

MADE IN ENGLAND

snow, snowball, hat, top hat, cane, umbrella, brick wall, monocle

label under box lid

"RULES FOR THE GAME OF 'HATS OFF.'"

cardboard box

13 ¼ inches wide — 12 inches high — 1 ¾ inches deep

83.2 cm wide — 30.5 cm high — 8.3 cm deep

Label with offwhite outer border, then black line. Background of top quarter is dark blue, concave at bottom; next quarter below is yellow with some orange, and bottom is white and blue representing snow and ice.

At upper left: "THE GAME" above "of" (black) and then "HATS-OFF" (red with black outline, then blue then white shadow), in a curve downward to right.

At central left, boy (red hat and coat, black short parts, green socks) is leaning down, holding a snowball by a stack of other snowballs at the end of a red brick wall, looking to center. Similarly, at center right, another boy (brown/green crosschecked hat), blue jacket, red scarf) has just thrown a snowball at two gentlemen at center, and is standing behind a red brick wall with a stack of other snowballs.

At center left is a man (monocle, dark blue coat, brown/black striped pants, tan shoes, holding cane), is knocked partially off his feet as a snowball knocks his top hat off. To his right is another man (brown jacket, light brown pants, black/white shoes, green scarf) has also lost his hat to a snowball, and has dropped his umbrella as one of his legs goes up in the air.

At bottom left: "BRITISH MANUFACTURE"

At bottom center: "GLEVUM SERIES" (red) in a pointed oval.

At bottom right: "MADE IN ENGLAND".

red

Red with no design.

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

Natural wooden stand (9" by 1 3/4" by 38" thick) for targets has 3 wooden dowels (1/4" diameter by 1 1/4" high) attached to the top. 3 painted wooden human figures (1" bottom diameter, 3/4" top diameter, 3 5/8" tall, with varying shapes between top and bottom) fit over dowels. Each has a blue ring at top and red ring at bottom; face is painted below top, then a red ring for the neck and blue for lower clothing with white stripes and spots. A hole goes all the way through the human figures.

2 (out of 3 that should be present) conical paper hats (1" diameter at bottom, 1 3/4" tall) are placed on top of the human figures to be knocked off. Each has a different multicolored design.

A shiny natural wooden platform (3 3/4" wide at bottom, 3 1/2" wide at top, 1" deep, and 1" wide) has a semicircle groove on the top plus a semicircle wire over the top near the end.

A shiny green-painted cylinder (3/4" diameter by 2" long) has a metal pull on one end that is attached to a wooden cylinder inside, that acts as a propelling device for another piece placed inside.

A shiny red piece (3/8" to 5/8" to 1/2" diameter), shaped somewhat like a bowling pin, has a white hazy piece at one end and a white ring near the other end. This may be the bullet for the propelling device.

Rick Tucker