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1950 · Gottlieb

Joker

Light cream field, black band behind the score reels, green x of card suits and red and white sunburst behind the title.

Year
1950
Maker
Gottlieb
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Backglass lights
Players
1

Made by

Design
Wayne Neyens
Art
Roy Parker

Vision analysis

On the backglass

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

Joker backglass

Backglass

  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • black

Fingerprint: Giant green X built from oversized card suits dominating artwork, blonde pin-up woman in playing-card bra seated across lower arm holding miniature jester doll, JOKER in chunky orange-yellow block letters tilted over red-white radial burst, ten brightly colored oval score reels numbered one to nine across top under green MILLIONS banner, ace cards ladder left side three joker cards right

Distinctive

A giant green X built from oversized card suits dominates the artwork, with a blonde card-suit pin-up woman seated across its lower arm holding a miniature jester doll. The title JOKER is in chunky orange-and-yellow block letters tilted across the centre over a red-and-white radial burst. Ten brightly coloured oval score reels numbered 1 to 9 run across the top under a green banner reading MILLIONS. A vertical ladder of seven ace playing cards runs down the left side and three face-up jokers down the right.

Setting

  • Light cream field
  • Black band behind the score reels
  • Green x of card suits
  • Red and white sunburst behind the title

Symbols

  • Hearts
  • Spades
  • Diamonds
  • Clubs
  • Playing cards
  • Joker cards
  • Jester figures
  • Sunburst
  • Score reels
  • Green x

Lettering

  • Joker in large chunky orange and yellow block capitals with heavy red and white outline, tilted diagonally; millions in thin widely spaced white sans-serif capitals on a green banner; artist plaque in red cursive script with small black capitals beneath

Themes

  • Playing cards
  • Joker
  • Card suits
  • Pin-up
  • Score reels
  • Fairground

Title on it

  • Joker

Text on it

  • MILLIONS
  • JOKER
  • D. Gummele & Co.
  • MILWAUKEE
  • A
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Blonde pin-up, curled hair, red lips, red and white playing-card-deck bra, red and yellow diamond-check miniskirt, seated with legs extended to the left, left hand on her hip, right arm outstretched holding a small red and yellow jester doll
Other Small jester doll with red and yellow cap, ruffled collar and checkered body, perched on the woman's outstretched hand
Other Jester figure printed on the top right joker card, and a similar jester on the middle right joker card
Full description

A backglass with a cream wooden frame and a flat, poster-like painted design on a light cream field. A large dark green X of card suits spans the whole backglass, with a big red, yellow and orange block-letter title JOKER set diagonally across the middle over a red and white striped sunburst. Above it, a row of ten vertical oval score reels sits inside a black band, each reel a different colour (red, orange, yellow, pale green, orange, red, crimson, magenta) showing a large digit with a row of small square lamps beneath; a green banner above them reads MILLIONS in thin white letters. Down the left edge is a column of seven overlapping playing cards, and down the right edge three face-up joker cards. Centre bottom is a blonde pin-up woman in a red and white playing-card-deck bra and a red-and-yellow diamond-patterned miniskirt, seated with legs stretched left, holding a tiny red-and-yellow jester doll in her outstretched right hand. Red, yellow and black card suits float over the green X. Bottom right carries a small cream artist plaque with red script.