Christmas is nearly upon us. It’s the season for games to appear and in our household we are not short of them. One of them is the game bagatelle – the sort of basic pinball where you push a ball up a slot onto a sloping table which is well equipped with pots to catch the ball (to score points) and nails for it to bounce off. The aim, of course, is to get a high score.
Our bagatelle board would once have been equipped with a spring loaded pusher, but we bought it at a jumble sale and so we just use a stick to push the balls (which are ball bearings. The board is made of a green coloured Bakelite.
Some of the printed score labels have worn away so we have had to use stick on paper labels. This is what a one ball sized pot should look like.
That little cup scores you 60 points.
This board was made by a company called Napro Productions
The best date I can find for these games is mid-20th century. Does anybody know better?
Tags: bagatelle, bakelite, game, mid 20th century
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