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1949 · Gottlieb

Buttons and Bows

Victorian city street, shop fronts including a barber and pink road.

Year
1949
Maker
Gottlieb
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Harry Mabs
Art
Roy Parker

Vision analysis

On the playfield

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Playfield

  • pink
  • green
  • yellow
  • blue

Fingerprint: big yellow swirling curve down pink and green playfield, blonde face with streaming hair behind top bumpers, two orange bumpers top centre, blue and white capped round bumpers down both sides, green panel reading Green Bumper Value with small lights, bottom oval of numbered circles labelled Thousands, Add BONUS inserts, red starburst insert

Distinctive

A big yellow flowing swirl runs down a pink and green playfield, with a blonde face behind the top bumpers. Blue and white round bumpers sit down both sides. A bottom oval of numbered circles is labelled Thousands. The photo is small and blurred.

Setting

  • Flat painted pattern

Symbols

  • Numbered circles
  • Red star burst insert

Notable shapes

  • Yellow S-curve down the centre

Art motifs

  • Flowing yellow curve

Themes

  • Swirling pattern

Text on it

  • Green Bumper Value
  • Add BONUS
  • SPECIAL when lit
  • Thousands
Pop bumpers
About seven round bumpers: two orange at the top centre, others with white and blue caps spread down both sides.
Apron and bottom of playfield
Yellow wooden apron with small instruction cards in both lower corners; a red coin or plunger fitting on the right.
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Blonde face with hair streaming behind the top bumpers, details blurred
Full description

A small, soft-focus photo of a playfield in a yellow wooden cabinet, tilted away from the viewer. The surface is painted pink at the top and green below, with a large yellow swirling curve running down the middle like a flowing mane or tail. A face with blonde hair appears behind the top bumpers. Round bumpers with white and blue caps sit in two rows, two orange ones at the top centre and blue ones lower left and right. A green panel near the top reads Green Bumper Value with a row of small round lights. Inserts carry text such as Add BONUS, SPECIAL when lit and Bonus, with a bottom oval of numbered circles 10 to 60 marked Thousands. Two flippers sit at the bottom. Cards sit in the lower corners of the wood.

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Backglass

  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue

Fingerprint: BUTTONS and BOWS in cream and red letters on dark blue scroll, top left. Score boxes topped by yellow A MILLION, 900,000 down to 100,000 in red, white, green and yellow. Woman in crimson frilled gown and hat at centre, man in straw boater lower left, penny-farthing rider and red hydrant at right. Pink road.

Distinctive

A woman in a long red Victorian ruffled dress standing in the middle of a street, with a man in a green-striped jacket tipping a straw boater at lower left. A man on a penny-farthing bicycle and a red fire hydrant at right. A scroll-shaped blue title BUTTONS and BOWS at top left, and a staircase of white, red and green score boxes up to A MILLION.

Setting

  • Victorian city street
  • Shop fronts including a barber
  • Pink road

Symbols

  • Penny-farthing bicycle
  • Fire hydrant
  • Straw boater
  • Score ribbons and rosettes

Lettering

  • Cream and red ribbon-style capitals on a dark scroll; red and white boxed numerals

Themes

  • Victorian
  • Gay nineties
  • Street scene
  • Bicycle

Title on it

  • BUTTONS and BOWS

Text on it

  • D. GOTTLIEB & CO. NEWS. CHICAGO, ILL.
  • BUTTONS and BOWS
  • MILLION
  • 900,000
  • 800,000
  • 700,000
  • 600,000
  • 500,000
  • 400,000
  • 300,000
  • 200,000
  • 100,000
  • 90,000
  • 80,000
  • 70,000
  • 60,000
  • 50,000
  • 40,000
  • 30,000
  • 20,000
  • 10,000
  • HAIRCUT
  • 15¢
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Central, long red ruffled dress and hat, hand raised
Man Lower left, green-and-yellow striped jacket, lifting a straw boater
Man Riding a penny-farthing bicycle at right
Other Crowd of small period figures along the shop fronts
Full description

A low-resolution photo of a wooden-framed, arched-top backglass in a busy turn-of-the-century street scene. The title banner at top left is a dark blue scroll with ribbons reading BUTTONS and BOWS in cream and red letters, with small print around it. At top right is a stack of score boxes: A MILLION across the top in yellow, then 900,000, 800,000, 700,000, 600,000, 500,000, 400,000, 300,000, 200,000 and 100,000 in red, white, green and yellow, with 90,000 down to 10,000 in rosettes at right. In the centre a woman in a long red ruffled Victorian dress and hat stands on a pink road, hand raised. At lower left a man in a straw boater and green-striped jacket doffs his hat. A man rides a penny-farthing bicycle at right, beside a red fire hydrant. Shop fronts and a crowd of period figures fill the background.