Collection Highlights
Physician's saddlebags w/bottles & bundles
1800-1850
1954.11
Leather, metal, glass, paper
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Museum Collections
American Board and Table Games: The Liman Collection Gift
CombinationTiddledy Winks
Title
CombinationTiddledy Winks
Object name
Table game
Date
ca. 1890
Medium
Cardboard, paper, wood, bone, felt
Dimensions
Overall: 2 x 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. ( 5.1 x 23.5 x 31.8 cm )
Description
"Combination Tiddledy Winks" table game with 30 bone playing pieces, two felt mats, a wooden cup, and a cardboard target with numbered holes cut out and two kittens lithographed on one side and a target printed on the other in a paper covered cardboard box; box top chromolithographed with an image of two kittens behind a pot into which winks are falling; box cover inscribed, "COMBINATION/ TIDDLEDY/ WINKS/ 7748/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK".
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.581
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "COMBINATION/ TIDDLEDY/ WINKS/ 7748/ McLOUGHLIN BROS., NEW YORK".
Gallery Label
Tiddledy Winks, first patented in England in 1889 and marketed to an adult audience, captivated Americans during the 1890s. The game's general concept is flicking a game piece (wink) with another instrument (tiddledy or squidger) to make the wink fly into the air. The modern spelling, tiddlywinks, came into use during the 1950s.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
