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Tiddlywinks Bibliography
© 1980-2009 Rick Tucker & Fred Shapiro. All Rights Reserved. Legal
The Tiddlywinks Bibliography is a compendium of all substantive and obscure citations to the game of tiddlywinks in all available resources: newspapers, magazines, books, government records, images, audio, video, web sites, etc. In other words, if the game of tiddlywinks was mentioned either briefly or in detail, it should be in the Tiddlywinks Bibliography.
Intro · Newspapers · School · Magazines · Books · Letters etc.· Video/Audio · Visual Art · Tiddlywinks Publications · Equipment · Patents · Trademarks · Copyrights · Misc. · Museums & Collections
Museum Exhibits
NOTE: This section is substantially out-of-date.
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
1525 Bernice Street, P.O. Box 19000-A, Honolulu HI 96817.
Exhibit of a game called Lafoga, with small discs on a map, and larger objects made of stitched coconut shells. (information updated 1989)
Museum of Childhood.
Hyndford's Close, 34 High Street, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tiddlywinks set and fish-shaped shooter. Date given as circa 1850 (not considered correct by NATwA).
Game Preserve.
Ms. Lee Dennis, Peterborough NH 03458.
Old American sets. (many sold in 1988)
Lilly Library.
University of Indiana, Bloomington
Parker Brothers Museum. (now part of Hasbro)
Salem MA 01970.
Sets dating to 1890s.
University Museum.
33rd & Spruce Streets, Philadelphia PA 19174.
May have set from 1893 Chicago World's Fair exhibit.
Weston-super-mare Museum.
England.
Flirting Crickets ~1870s (via Mary Hillier)
Collections
Clubs & Associations
Cambridge
University Tiddlywinks Club (CUTwC), Cambridge, England.
c/o Queens’ College, Cambridge England
Minute books 1955 to date, press clippings 1947 to date
English Tiddlywinks Association
(ETwA)
Correspondence, etc., 1958 to date.
North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA) Archives
c/o Rick Tucker, 4651 Kinsey Lane, Alexandria VA 22311-4916 USA
Documents, clippings, tournament records, etc., including Drix collection.
Scottish Tiddlywinks
Association (ScotTwA)
St. Andrews University
St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
Winkers
++Rick Tucker
4651 Kinsey Lane, Alexandria VA 22311-4916 USA
Research files re modern tournament game and origins and history of tiddlywinks. Tournament statistics. NATwA, ETwA, ScotTwA publications. Antique sets. Photographs. Correspondence.
Fred Shapiro
Research files re modern tournament game and origins and history of tiddlywinks. Historical tiddlywinks lexicography. Correspondence.
++Bill Renke
Newton MA
Closet of Fame, originals of many NATwA publications, MITTwA material, major NATwA collection, many clippings.
Severin Drix
Major collection re NATwA History.
Ferd T. Bull
Major collection re NATwA History. Photographs
Michael Crick, Mike Gottesman, Alfred Goldberg
NUTS material.
++Daniel Dern
Photographs, video.
Buck Webb, Bob Henninge, Jim Koschella
Photographs.
++Sunshine.
Tournament Statistics.
Dave Lockwood, Joe Sachs, Tim Schiller, Scott Hirsh, etc.
Miscellaneous.
++Charles Relle, Alan Dean, Jon Mapley, Andy Purvis
ETwA collections.
Schools
MIT Archives
Room 14N-118, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139.
The Tech, Tech Talk, Thursday, MIT News Office Press Releases, Technique, Technology Review, others.
MIT News Office
Room 5-111, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139.
Tech Talk, press releases, MIT Observer, files.
Harvard Archives
Cambridge MA 02138.
Gargoyle, yearbooks, bibliography of Harvard tiddlywinks references.
Museums
Games Museum and Archive
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Public Sources
Library of Congress
Washington DC 20540.
American Stationer, Bangs books, most other books, periodicals, etc.
U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
Arlington VA.
Patent Search Room: Crystal City Plaza building 3 & 4, first floor.
Patent Examiners' Group Search Room for Class 273: fourth floor.
Trademark Search Rooms: Crystal City Plaza building 2, first and second floors.
U. S. Copyright Office
Library of Congress, Madison Building, Washington DC 20559.
Boston Public Library
Copley Square, Boston MA 02117.
British patent specifications, British Trade Marks Journal, Louis Prang chromolithograph, etc.
National Library of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Copies of early Newswinks.
Organizations, Companies
National Geographic Library
1146 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20036.
Clippings file: Sports & Games—Tiddlywinks.
Oxford University Press
Oxford English Dictionary
37a St. Giles, Oxford, England OX1 3LD.
Files of word quotations.
G. & C. Merriam Co.
Webster's Dictionaries.
47 Federal Street, Springfield MA 01101.
Files of word quotations.
Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors
Archives of game rules, company histories, company catalogs.
R. C. Bell
England.
Old J. Jaques set.
Ms. Lee Dennis
The Game Preserve, 110 Spring Road, Peterborough NH 03458.
603-924-6710. Collection sold 1988.
Herb Siegel
Wyncote PA 19095.
Old sets. Collection sold 1992.
Bruce Whitehill (The Big Game Hunter)