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[tiltjlp]

Russian Bagatelle



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Category: VP 8.x - Bagatelle

Author(s): tiltjlp

Description:
This bagatelle was probably made for resale in the early part of the 1900s. The playing field would have been painted wood, or painted oilcloth glued to wood.

What looks like a crack in the playing field is indded a crack where the wood has cracked and begun to seperate. While the game is well designed, the bottom seems like a seperate game, where you try to get one ball into each of the ten slots that a numbered 1 to 10 randomly.

A unique and never before seen feature is a non-scoring lane on the left side of the table, a twin for the launch lane. Whikle a player could have replyed the ball, it was probably meant as a lost ball feature. Too bad that didn't become standard on bagatelle.


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Submitted by tiltjlp, on Oct 15 2010, 01:09 PM

[Sabbat]

Very nice looking table and since I'm slavic myself (ukrainian) I plan on downloading this right now

I like the pictures, weird though that in russia they designed a table with Asian people and buildings, i didn't notice that right away, figured they were Russian at first

[faralos]

I'm Polish that's as close as I get to being Russian! where do you keep finding all these ancient wonders?

[tiltjlp]

Very nice looking table and since I'm slavic myself (ukrainian) I plan on downloading this right now

I like the pictures, weird though that in russia they designed a table with Asian people and buildings, i didn't notice that right away, figured they were Russian at first

Interesting. Maybe it really wasn't made in Russia, although my source for the image claims it was. But then, if it was made to sell as an export, the Asian illustrations migjht be in order.