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<p>[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 4534936, member: 7826"]Hello all -- funny and ironic that the sports-&-games-&-sports-memorabilia guys are asking for help about a tabletop sports game, but here we are. We were recently presented with images of a previously unknown game, and we'd like at least to put an approximate date to it, which we think has some remote possibility of being estimated based on details of the box construction and hardware. This might be better suited for the Furniture or Tools sections, but we didn't want to double-post...</p><p><br /></p><p>The game is contained in a wooden box containing playing pieces with illustrations of 19th-Century ballplayers (means zero as far as dating -- illos could have been done any time at all in the last 130 or 140 years). The other game implements include a couple of wooden, metal-tipped, miniature batons, and a crude wooden metal-tipped calipers or compass. Our suspicions are that the whole thing is a homemade concoction and not a commercial product, that it could've been made in literally any year since the 1880s, and (<i>completely immaterial</i> here -- all we're looking for are insights into game's age as suggested by the construction and hardware) we have a fair guess as to the method of play.</p><p><br /></p><p>Posted below (hopefully) are a photo of the entire game, and cropped images to show details of the box hardware and implements. Any help will be greatly appreciated.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401091[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]401092[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]401094[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 4534936, member: 7826"]Hello all -- funny and ironic that the sports-&-games-&-sports-memorabilia guys are asking for help about a tabletop sports game, but here we are. We were recently presented with images of a previously unknown game, and we'd like at least to put an approximate date to it, which we think has some remote possibility of being estimated based on details of the box construction and hardware. This might be better suited for the Furniture or Tools sections, but we didn't want to double-post... The game is contained in a wooden box containing playing pieces with illustrations of 19th-Century ballplayers (means zero as far as dating -- illos could have been done any time at all in the last 130 or 140 years). The other game implements include a couple of wooden, metal-tipped, miniature batons, and a crude wooden metal-tipped calipers or compass. Our suspicions are that the whole thing is a homemade concoction and not a commercial product, that it could've been made in literally any year since the 1880s, and ([I]completely immaterial[/I] here -- all we're looking for are insights into game's age as suggested by the construction and hardware) we have a fair guess as to the method of play. Posted below (hopefully) are a photo of the entire game, and cropped images to show details of the box hardware and implements. Any help will be greatly appreciated. [ATTACH=full]401091[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]401092[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]401094[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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