Rip Van Winkle Bowling Game (Milton Bradley Company, c. 1929)
Name/Title
Rip Van Winkle Bowling Game (Milton Bradley Company, c. 1929)Entry/Object ID
SS.2021.64 a-mDescription
Bowling game a-b. Box: Two-part telescoping cardboard box, comprised of (a.) lid and (b.) body; lid wrapped with colorful lithographed paper, image of two small men bowling, surrounded by mushrooms and with peaked roof cottage in upper left; one man wears green tunic, red pantaloons, green wide-brimmed hat, and shoes with bows; second man wears red tunic, green stockings, striped stocking hat, no shoes; red, orange and blue checkerboard pattern around edges; printed at upper left: "RIP VAN WINKLE" and at lower right: "MADE IN U.S.A. MILTON BRADLEY CO. SPRINGFIELD, MASS."; printed inside lid: "4097/ RIP VAN WINKLE/ FOR ANY NUMBER OF PLAYERS/ Everybody knows the story of Rip Van Winkle; how he hiked up to a high peak of the Catskill Mountins, and heard what he thought was rumbling thunder, but which proved to be be the rolling of ten pins [sic] by the sturdy dwarves who dwelt in the mountian recesses. Now, no boy or girl of today wished to imitate Rip Van Winkle and go to sleep for twenty years, but they do like to play as the mountain dwarves did--and so they will enjoy this novel and clever bowling game, which is played as follows...." and "MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY/ SPRINGFIELD, MASS./ "Makers of the World's Best Games"/ Play "WHOOPEE"--the new card game. A whirlwind of fun./Copyright 1929 by Milton Bradley Company"; (b.) wrapped with white paper; attached playing surface, affixed to interior of box bottom; cardboard with paper affixed; paper printed with horizontal stripes of yellow, black and green, dark blue box with vertical red zigzags over blue-green; oval holes arranged in inverted triangle, each identified with a printed number 1-10; printed at bottom left "4097." c-l: Pins: ten wooden unpainted bowling pins. m. Disc: Wooden ring, painted red.Collection
Sunnyside Object CollectionMade/Created
Manufacturer
Milton Bradley CompanyDate made
circa 1929Inscription/Signature/Marks
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InscriptionTranscription
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SS.2021.64 a-m
SS.2021.64 a-n