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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BaseballGames, post: 378340, member: 7826&quot;]Hi KS, we wish we could tell you something definitive about your game -- we can&#039;t, but that won&#039;t prevent us from adding some guesswork (thanks for the recommendation, ineed).</p><p><br /></p><p>We don&#039;t have this game catalogued -- we agree with Sandra, it&#039;s very likely a homemade, one-off item -- but many 1920s-1930s bagatelles mass-produced by identifiable manufacturers are not one bit more sophisticated in construction or appearance.&nbsp; It&#039;s really only the lack of any name or title for your game, the absence of any manufacturer ID, and the handwritten point values that suggest a homemade nature -- any one of those, alone, wouldn&#039;t rule out mass production.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one really unusual feature in your game is what appears to be a pool-cue-like device for launching the ball onto the gameboard.&nbsp; Most commonly, of course, bagatelles like this employ a spring-loaded pull-back to shoot a ball into motion.&nbsp; The cue here suggests that either the game is indeed home-made -- the normal spring mechanism being a bit more complicated and expensive -- or that the game is considerably older than the 1920s-&#039;30s timeframe its overall appearance otherwise suggests.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;d say your game has collector value -- not a ton, but some -- both as a unique bagatelle, for game/toy collectors, and as folk-art, for that crowd.&nbsp; Ooh!&nbsp; &quot;Crossover appeal.&quot;&nbsp; Good luck, whatever you decide to do with it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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