THE GAME OF "Cupola"

Malcolm J. Watkins email to Rick Tucker, 17 February 2024, citing the game's listing in Roberts Brothers catalogs from 1926 to 1931 but not 1925.

(no catalog number shown on game)

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(no publisher name on game) [[note: Determined to be made by Roberts Brothers per a Malcolm J. Watkins email to Rick Tucker, 17 February 2024, citing the game's listing in Roberts Brothers catalogs from 1926 to 1931 but not 1925.]]

«THE
GAME
OF
"Cupola"»

BRITISH MANUFACTURE

MADE IN ENGLAND

The game cover shows a man at left and a teenaged girl at right at a table with a single-holed elevated target

vase

label under box lid

cardboard box

8 ¼ inches wide — 6 ⅜ inches high — 1 ½ inches deep

51.4 cm wide — 20 cm high — 14 cm deep

Label with white outer border, then red, then black. The main background at top is yellow, and green at the bottom.

"THE" above "GAME" above "OF" (in black) is at upper left. To the right, in a larger, script font, is |"Cupola"|, all on the yellow background.

A table is on a diagonal, with a light brown top and dark brown sides and legs.

A man (blue suit, white shirt, tie, brown hair) is sitting at left, with his right hand holding a squidger on a yellow wink, having shot a green wink into the air toward the nearer yellow/tan cup and the green arch with a round hole in it at the center of the table.

At the opposite end of the table, a woman (red dress, blonde hair) is stangin and holding a blue squidger in her right hand as a yellow wink enters the red pot on her side of the table.

"BRITISH MANUFACTURE" appears at lower left, and "MADE IN ENGLAND" at lower right.

The game comes with two red nonglossy wooden wooden cups (1 5/8" in diameter at top and bottom, 1 3/8" tall), each with a 1/8" rim wider base, and slightly concave on the side.

A cardboard arch (5 1/2" wide, 5 1/2" tall, 1/8" thick) has right angles at the bottom and is circular at top. It has a 2" diameter hole in its top part. It has an orange background with green circles and red/black and white/green star-shaped flowers. It fits into a recessed line on a natural wooden base (5 7/8" wide, 1 1/8" deep, and 1/4" tall)

1 squidger (1" in diameter) and 6 winks (5/8" in diameter) are supplied in green and red. Some have burrs and some do not.

Rick Tucker