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[FOOTBALL]. AN EARLY TABLE FOOTBALL GAME — Bush, Booth & Co, c.1915.
A green-painted pitch, with carved, yellow-painted grooves terminating in seven recesses, each contested by two plungers actuated by seven finger-pieces at each end; the brass plates marked LEFT BACK, OUTSD LEFT, CENTR HALF, GOAL, CENTR FORWD, OUTSD BACK, RIGHT BACK; further finger-pieces actuate plungers in the goal mouth; two brass scoring plaques to each side, the mechanism underneath, housed in a lidded oak case, ten balls, 220 x 556 x 410mm.
[With:] related documentation, including patent letter (number 8033/1915), two typed letters from the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops regretfully declining the game as '[not] suitable for manufacture at these Workshops', typed letter from patent agents, 5pp. patent specifications No 8033 A.D. 1915 (fig. 1 removed and placed in frame), part of 1907 patent description and diagram for another machine, advertising material, one page of written notes dated 1912 on 'The Bush Ball Game'.
One of the earliest extant table football tables.
A green-painted pitch, with carved, yellow-painted grooves terminating in seven recesses, each contested by two plungers actuated by seven finger-pieces at each end; the brass plates marked LEFT BACK, OUTSD LEFT, CENTR HALF, GOAL, CENTR FORWD, OUTSD BACK, RIGHT BACK; further finger-pieces actuate plungers in the goal mouth; two brass scoring plaques to each side, the mechanism underneath, housed in a lidded oak case, ten balls, 220 x 556 x 410mm.
[With:] related documentation, including patent letter (number 8033/1915), two typed letters from the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops regretfully declining the game as '[not] suitable for manufacture at these Workshops', typed letter from patent agents, 5pp. patent specifications No 8033 A.D. 1915 (fig. 1 removed and placed in frame), part of 1907 patent description and diagram for another machine, advertising material, one page of written notes dated 1912 on 'The Bush Ball Game'.
One of the earliest extant table football tables.
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This lot is offered without reserve.
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