Game Information
Madmar Quality Company (publisher) AGPI # · P-1039Full Publisher Info
Disk the Famous American Game (game) AGPI # · G-35120
Tucker Tiddlywinks # · 
MAD-03
Title Source · 
game cover
Title, Preserving Case · 
DISK THE FAMOUS AMERICAN GAME
Title Language · 
English
Date · 
around 1900 
Publisher Name on Game

Madmar Quality Company

Variant Description

Game device on left side of cover (in red)

Game Type · 
Rules Format

(no rules present in games examined)

Container Type · 
cardboard box
Container Size · (measured in inches)

20½ inches wide — 3½ inches high — 2½ inches deep

52.1 cm wide — 8.9 cm high — 6.4 cm deep

Cover Description

Label with dull brown background.

At upper left, "PLAY" (red italic serif font) above "Disk" (red cursive font with "k" linking back to "D").

Left half depicts game device from box, in red, with hand at left holding a shooter against one metal loop on which a round disk (with a star on it) rests. Another hand is at right, holding a shooter after depressing the other metal loop, with a curved path of a round disk heading toward the square target at the device's center.

Right half of cover is in black, with filigree, "DISK", the filigree. Below is "THE FAMOUS AMERICAN GAME", and below that is "PLAYED IN A MILLION HOMES". Below that is "Made Only By" above "THE MADMAR QUALITY COMPANY", above "Utica, New York"

Underlabel Description

dull brown

Apron Descriptions

dull brown, empty

Box Bottom Description

dull gray, empty

Contents

Wooden and metal shooting and target device (19 3/4" long by 3" wide maximum (center square target) by 2 5/8" maximum). End stands are each a black beveled piecs of word. Attached to them is a long red piece of wood (19 3/4" long). At center is a green painted box target (3" on each square side at top, 1 3/4" tall on side) attached to red piece of wood. On side of green painted box is a banner label (green background, gold lettering): "THE MADMAR QUALITY COMPANY" above "MADMAR" above "UTICA, NEW YORK". (An additional unattached label is in the box that was on the other side of the green box.) To both left and right of green box is a black wooden wedge with a metal loop (4" long) attached to each, which flexes to catapult a round paper disk.

Cardboard disks (1 1/2" diameter) with "MADMAR QUALITY CO." around top circle curve, "Disk" (cursive as on the game cover) in the center of the circle, and "UTICA, N.Y." around bottom circle curve on one side of the disk. 2 disks are pink with a star on the back with the value 1 at center. 1 disk is green with a star and the value 10.

1 1" black disk (looks like a Necco wafer, but isn't) is used to depress the metal loop to cause it to catapult one of the cardboard disks in the air toward the green target.

2 red wooden bowling pins (4 1/8" tall)/

1 natural wooden bowling pin with two red stripes around it (4 1/2" tall).

Tiddlywinks Type · 
cup
Winks

flipper device instead of squidger

In Collection · 
Database Update Date · 
2021-05-03 18:12:46

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