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1960 · Williams

21

Flat cream wall scattered with printed card-suit pips, green table-surface band beneath the card table and peach score band across the bottom.

Year
1960
Maker
Williams
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Harry Mabs

Vision analysis

On the backglass

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

21 backglass

Backglass

  • yellow
  • red
  • blue
  • cream

Fingerprint: Cartoon card-game backglass on cream wall speckled with card-suit pips. Left: MILLIONS ladder of coloured circles 8 down to 1, card-shaped score ladder 900 to 100. Centre: fan of five playing cards above windows. Enormous white 21 on blue starburst with pips embedded in digits, grinning jester in ruffled collar peeking behind. Three men at round table with cards: one in blue suit, one in green jacket, white-haired man in blue coat. Bottom-right white cat beside grandfather clock.

Distinctive

A giant white numeral 21 whose strokes are filled with tiny playing-card pips, with a grinning court jester in a ruff popping out from behind it. Second most striking is the complete gambling-den tableau: three men fanning cards around a round table labelled DEALER'S SCORE, plus a smiling man at bottom left holding up a blank red rectangular panel and a white cat-like figure in a ruff at bottom right beside a tall grandfather clock. The left third is packed with number columns - a MILLIONS ladder of coloured circles 8 down to 1 and a descending card-shaped ladder 900 down to 100.

Setting

  • Flat cream wall scattered with printed card-suit pips
  • Green table-surface band beneath the card table
  • Peach score band across the bottom

Symbols

  • Playing-card suits scattered as background pips (spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs)
  • Fan of five face-up playing cards
  • Grandfather clock with white face and yellow pendulum bob
  • Colourful card-shaped score windows

Lettering

  • Bold sans-serif capitals on banners and panels for functional text, plus one very large white display numeral with a dark red outline and card pips inside its strokes

Themes

  • Playing cards
  • Card game
  • Gambling
  • Numbers
  • Score windows
  • Court jester

Title on it

  • 21

Text on it

  • MILLIONS
  • THOUSANDS
  • CARD SCORE
  • DEALER'S SCORE
  • 21
  • 900
  • 800
  • 700
  • 600
  • 500
  • 400
  • 300
  • 200
  • 100
  • 8
  • 7
  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Left player at the round table: dark-haired, blue suit jacket, white shirt, leaning back with mouth open laughing, fanning a spread of cards in his right hand
Man Centre player: dark-haired, green jacket with a striped necktie, eyes closed, holding a fan of red-backed cards near his face
Man Right player: white-haired older man in a blue coat with a red bow tie, both hands raised holding cards, laughing
Man Bottom-left corner: smiling man in a red cap holding up a large blank red rectangular panel with both hands
Other Court jester behind the large numeral: grinning wide-mouthed character with a ruffled white ruff, red cap with scalloped brim, striped red-and-yellow sleeves
Animal Bottom-right white cat-like creature with a ruff, reaching up at the base of the grandfather clock
Full description

A cartoon-style card-game backglass. Left third: two vertical score columns against a cream wall speckled with red, black and blue card-suit pips. The outer column is headed MILLIONS in white on a red banner above eight stacked coloured circles numbered 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 in alternating blue, green, orange and yellow; beside it a ladder of card-shaped panels reads 900, 800, 700, 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100 in alternating dark blue, green, yellow and red, with THOUSANDS lettered vertically in blue on a pale blue stripe. Centre top: a fan of five playing cards, including an ace of spades, sits above two white windows showing 1 and 0 inside a red-and-white panel captioned CARD SCORE in white on red. Top right: an enormous white 21 with black and red pips embedded in the digits on a blue starburst, with a grinning jester in a ruffled collar and red cap peeking out behind it. Centre: three men sit at a round card table. Bottom: a peach band lettered THOUSANDS in red above a row of large coloured score windows.