HORSMAN'S TIDDLEDY WINK TENNIS AND TIDDLEDY WINKS COMBINED

cover

© 1890 E. I. Horsman Jr.

On cover: "PATENTED DEC. 9TH, 1890.".

E. I. Horsman Jr.

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«HORSMAN'S»

TRADE
MARK

«TIDDLEDY WINK TENNIS
AND TIDDLEDY WINKS COMBINED.»

PATENTED DEC. 9TH, 1890.

COPYRIGHTED BY E.I. HORSMAN JR. 1890.

cardboard box, patented "DEC. 9TH" (not "DEC. 9") on cover; "PATENTED DEC. 9TH, 1890" label on box bottom; orange (faded to yellow-brown) box.

3. Same cover as HOR-06, but in a cardboard box

E. I. Horsman Jr. (copyright)

tennis

$1.00 (Youth's Companion magazine, E. I. Horsman advertisement, 20 November 1890, page 636, column 2)

leaflet (8 pages) plus sheet

[8 page leaflet]

TIDDLEDY WINK TENNIS
TRADE MARK
COPYRIGHT 1890, E. I. HORSMAN, JR.

[sheet]

TIDDLEDY WINKS
DIRECTIONS.
PUBLISHED BY E. I. HORSMAN,
NEW YORK.

cardboard box

10 ⅜ inches wide — 6 ¾ inches high — 2 ⅛ inches deep

32.7 cm wide — 40 cm high — 6.7 cm deep

A monochrome illustration appears on the cover.

"HORSMAN's" is shown in the upper left of the cover, with a very tall "H". "TRADE" above "MARK" appears at left center.

"TIDDLEDY WINK TENNIS" is shown at the bottom, with a very tall first "T". On a banner below that, in smaller characters, the following appears: "AND TIDDLEDY WINKS COMBINED."

"PATENTED DEC. 9TH, 1890." appears below that at left and "COPYRIGHTED BY E. I. HORSMAN JR. 1890" at right.

The cover illustrates a scene of people playing tiddlywinks at a table. The table sits at the center with a felt tennis mat and net from the game on top. At left, a man (wearing a black suit and sporting a mustache) holds a round shooter with his right hand, and is leaning it on the edge of the table. To the right a woman (wearing an outfit with a light sash around neck) is looking on with her hands under the table. In the right rear corner, another man (wearing a dark suit, light shirt, and bowtie, and sporting a mustache) is looking on. On the right another woman (wearing an outfit with a V-neck top) is holding a light-colored shooter on the mat.

dull orange with semirandom vertical pattern

cardboard and red label on edges

One cardboard net, 8 5/8" wide and between 1 1/4" and1 3/8" high, about 1/8" thick.

Two turned, finished yellow wood stands that serve to hold up the net at each end; each is shaped like a chess bishop, 2" tall, 1 1/8" diameter semicircle base, 3/8" at top.

Very shiny light brown natural wooden wooden cup (2 1/8" diameter at top, 2" diameter at bottom, concave sides with minimum of 1 5/8" diameter, 1 1/2" tall). The underside of the cup has a mottled dark green paper attached. One black stripe encircles the cup near the base.

One copy (copy 1) includes the following:

1 squidger (1 1/8" diameter, 1/16" thick): blue, brown, yellow, and white.

Counters (3/4" diameter, 3/16" thick): 13 mottled yellow and 8 red.

A card (4" wide by 2 11/16" wide) marked "WHIST" over "MARKER" with two dials, each with numbers from 1 to 10 and an unnumbered space along with a gold-colored pointer.

2 "AUBURNDALE" over "KOUNTER" square devices (2" square by 5/16" thick) with light brown faces, each with numbers from 0 to 10 in a circle with an open hole that exposes a number that can be incremented by pressing on a gold-colored metal button at top.

cup

Rick Tucker

18 September 1890 · American Stationer · page 691 · note: Illustration of game cover. · (periodical)

Bruce Whitehill, Games, American Boxed Games and Their Makers, 1822-1992, With Values, Radnor, Pennsylvania: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, © 1992, page 93 with illustration of cover.