Glücksringe

Happy rings, or Springrings

Spear-Spiel

1128

label under box ld

Gluctsringe
D.R.W.Z.

[advertisements for "Drei boße Buben", "Der Mann muß[?] hinaus"]

14 ⅝ inches wide — 10 ⅛ inches high — 1 ¼ inches deep

46 cm wide — 32.1 cm high — 7 cm deep

Label with white outer border, then black line, then yellow overall background.

Upper left: "Glücksringe" in letters with red in the upper part and brown in the lower part, curving concave downward. Below in black: "D.R.W.Z." [registered trademark].

Upper right: A green catapult device with a red quoit on its flipping end. One hand has its index finger holding the end of the catapult device, the rightmost hand has the other hand's index finger flexing the tension device of the catapult.

At lower left is a depiction of the game target. Shown on the cover is a square overall target with light blue in the corners. Inside that is a black circle, within which are sectors marked with numbers (mostly in white) and various color backgrounds, including: 6 and green, 2 and black, 3 in red on white, 5 on light blue, 4 on yellow, and 1 on red. At center is 10 in light blue on a pink circle.

At lower right is "Ein neues" above "Spiel." [a new game], with each letter being red at top and brown at bottom, all with a black outline.

At lower left: "No. 1288".

At lower center: "SPEAR SPIEL" in a black oval.

At lower right: "Verlag J. W. Spear & Söhne, Nürnberg-Doos."

red

Red with no design.

gray, empty, with edges of red box background wraparound

Square cardboard target (9" by 9" by 1/8" thick") with white outer border, black line, then dull green in outer corners.

Inside outer corners is a black circumference of a circle (8 3/4" diameter). Inside the circle are 6 sectors, each of a different number and color. The sectors are: "1" in white with black outline on red background; "6" in white on green background; "2" in white on black; "3" in red on white; "5" in white on pale blue; "4" in white on yellow.

At center is "10" in blue on a pink background, in a small circle.

Within each numbered area is a short metal nail.

3 green wooden catapults are included (a green piece of wood that is 2 3/4" long by 1 5/16" wide by 5/16" tall, with a metal device attached to one end of the piece of wood, which then bends up and includes a circular metal holder that takes the quoits that are includes in the game. The circular metal holder is 1" in outer diameter and 1 1/2" in inner diameter. Metal flicker is 3/16" away from the the wooden catapult at the flicking end.

The quoits to be shot are cardboard, each 1" in outer diameter and 5/8" in inner diameter: 12 pink, 1 yellow, 11 offwhite 11 light blue, 11 light green.

Rick Tucker