Made by
- Design
- Harry Mabs
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- red
- yellow
- cream
Fingerprint: just 21: slanted crimson-red card bearing huge white-and-black script title with heart motif, twenty-one-point scoring ladder of white ovals with red rims running down entire left side from 50 to 1, double "3 2 1 million" bonus banner across top with slanted arrow panels, four 1950s bikini-clad pin-up women (two busts, two full-length), yellow sunburst beach with striped carnival tent
The dominant feature is the enormous slanted 'Just 21' logo in white script on a crimson card, with the numerals 21 over a pink heart, and a 21-point scoring ladder of white ovals with red rims running down the entire left side from 50 down to 1. Second, the double '3 2 1 MILLION' bonus-value banner across the top with slanted arrow panels for 400 through 900. Third, the group of four 1950s bikini-clad pin-up women, two as large bust portraits and two full-length on a yellow sunburst beach with a striped carnival tent behind. Fourth, the small 'A PRODUCT OF D. Gottlieb & Co / CHICAGO, ILL.' cartouche in the bottom right corner, and a heavily abraded, paint-flaked right-hand edge where the blue sky has been rubbed away.
Setting
- Open blue sky with score banners
- Yellow sunburst over a beach or fairground
- Striped carnival tent arch
- Palm trees
- Distant hills and sea horizon
Symbols
- Pink heart behind the 21
- Red arrow banners with score values
- White ovals with red rims as point markers
- Palm trees
- Striped tent
- Yellow sunburst rays
- Green grassy mound
- Wooden picture frame
Lettering
- Large white script with black outline for the title; tall condensed sans-serif capitals in yellow and red for the bonus values; white condensed capitals on red arrows for the scoring ladder
Themes
- Beach
- Bikini pin-up
- Card game
- Carnival
- Number 21
- Score ladder
Title on it
- Just 21
Text on it
- 3 2 1 MILLION
- 400
- 500
- 600
- 700
- 800
- 900
- POINTS
- 50
- 40
- 30
- 20
- 10
- 9
- 8
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- Just 21
- A PRODUCT OF
- D. Gottlieb & Co
- CHICAGO, ILL.
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Large bust portrait at lower left, blonde 1950s coiffure with curled fringe, arched dark eyebrows, red lipstick, smiling with head tilted slightly, bare shoulders |
| Woman | Second large bust portrait beside the first, brunette with dark waved hair, red lips, wearing a pale strapless top, facing slightly right |
| Woman | Full-length blonde standing centre-right, hands on hips, red two-piece bikini, bare legs, black heels, front-facing |
| Woman | Full-length brunette at right, long dark hair, red-and-white spotted bikini, one arm raised with hand near her head, standing on a green mound |
A framed, portrait-format painted backglass in a light wood frame with a stepped inner bevel. The upper third is a flat mid-blue sky printed with a scoring ladder: a large '3 2 1' in red, yellow and orange block numerals, then the word 'MILLION' in yellow capitals, with slanted arrow banners carrying values 400, 500, 600, 700, 800 and 900 (each with smaller raised digit clusters). Down the left edge runs a red arrow marked 'POINTS' in white capitals, feeding a descending column of nine white ovals with red rims and black numerals 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. In the centre a tilted crimson-red card carries the title in huge white-and-black script, 'Just 21', with a heart motif behind the numerals. Four women in 1950s pin-up style are painted along the lower half: two large heads-and-shoulders portraits at lower left (a blonde and a brunette in a strapless top) and two full-length figures at centre-right, one blonde in a red bikini and one brunette in a red-and-white spotted two-piece. Behind them a yellow sunburst, an arched carnival tent, palm trees and a pale beach recede into the distance. A white instruction card is printed at lower right.