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Tiddlywinks Bibliography
© 1980-2010 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, websites, etc. In other words, if the game of tiddlywinks was mentioned either briefly or in detail, it should be in the Tiddlywinks Bibliography.
Introduction · Newspapers · School · Magazines · Books · Letters etc.· Video/Audio · Visual Art · Tiddlywinks Publications · Equipment · Patents · Trademarks · Copyrights · Miscellaneous · 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NOTE: This section is substantially out-of-date.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)
Boston Museum of Science
| 8 Jun - 1 Sep 1986 | Boston Museum of Science, "Science of Sports" | original (NATwA) | |
| 2 Aug 1986 | Boston Museum of Science, "Today's Programs" | original (NATwA) |
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.
Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology
| 4 Jul 1980 | Smithsonian badges for Tiddlywinks Workshop in the Museum of History and Technology | original (NATwA) | |
| 5 Jan 1980 | Photographs taken by Smithsonian photographer at the Tiddlywinks Workshop held in the Museum of History and Technology |
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
National Undergraduate Tiddlywinks Societry (NUTS) materials.
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.
Cornell Archives
Ithaca NY.
Photographs, yearbooks, Cornell Daily Sun, press releases.
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Coryphaeus and The Chevron newspapers.
Museums and Archives
Spear's Game Archives, England
Nuremberg Toy Museum / Museen der Stadt Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York
V&A Museum of Childhood (formerly the Bethnal Green Museum), London
Le Musée Suisse du Jeu, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Public Sources
Library of Congress
Washington DC 20540
American Stationer trade magazine, John Kendrick Bangs books, most other books, periodicals, etc.
U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
See patents and trademarks
Alexandria VA
U. S. Copyright Office
See copyrights
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
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.
Collectors, Researchers
Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors
Archives of game rules, company histories, company catalogs
Games database with images and rules: www.gamecatalog.org
Game rules and catalog pages: www.gamearchives.org
R. C. Bell
England.
Old J. Jaques set.
Rally & Lee Dennis (deceased)
The Game Preserve, 110 Spring Road, Peterborough NH 03458.
Collection sold 1988.
Herb Siegel
Wyncote PA 19095.
Old sets. Collection sold 1992.
Bruce Whitehill (The Big Game Hunter)