Mermaid

Full view of a wooden-cabinet electro-mechanical playfield behind a dusty clear cover, lit by pink and green tube lighting. Top third is warm orange/tan with a comic mermaid riding a seahorse over green waves. A long vertical red-bordered lane runs straight down the centre of the playfield, studded with about eight white round insert lamps, flanked by six cream mushroom pop-bumper caps numbered 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 in blue and one plain yellow dome at upper left, plus a red-gold post bumper high centre. Mid-playfield is green with laurel sprigs and two white comic speech bubbles on stems reading SPECIAL WHEN LIT, each above a yellow 1 POINT lozenge and a red 200,000 / 500,000 WHEN LIT medallion. Lower left shows a cartoon man in a red-and-white checked shirt, green patterned trousers and orange shoes, leaning over a cash register counter marked F.S. 127. Lower right shows a blonde mermaid in a green scaled tail lounging on an orange treasure chest spilling pearls, crowns, a sword and a small chest. Two blue 100,000 WHEN LIT target banks sit at each outlane. White rubber flippers with FLIPPER printed on them, a chrome ball-return trough and a black drain occupy the bottom, framed by green and maroon aprons carrying large white FLIPPER lettering. A white MERMAID instruction card with red headings is clipped to the lower apron.

A 1970s-style illustrated backglass on a flat mid-green background, dominated by a top scoring banner of eight linked coloured hexagon/octagon plaques reading 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 MILLION in white block letters, alternating red, light blue, yellow, green, red, orange, navy and red, separated by small white ball dots. Below, nine red-haired mermaids ride labelled fish that form a score ladder: 500000 on a green fish, 400000 on yellow, 300000 in plain white text, 200000 on red, 100000 on dark red, then 600000 on blue, 700000 on navy, 800000 on red and 900000 on red at the right. The title MERMAID sits upper-right of centre in large italic white capitals with red shading, letter strokes striped like fish bones. A blonde mermaid with a yellow-scaled tail and red top leans on a rock left of the title. Centre is a rectangular orange and yellow framed window showing a fisherman in a white boat on dark water against a big low yellow sun. The lower band is a black-backed reef with a yellow octopus, a partly bare-chested merman, a scuba diver with red tank, fish, an open treasure chest on a blue box reading POINTS, a crouching black-haired woman, a starfish and coral, plus small print A PRODUCT OF D. Gottlieb & Co. CHICAGO, ILL.

Painted cartoon-style backglass with an underwater theme. A red-orange wooden outer frame surrounds a dark green sea backdrop filled with fronds and weeds. Across the top runs a row of nine arrow and hexagon shaped panels in alternating red, blue, yellow, green and teal, each holding a white numeral: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, followed by a long red panel reading MILLION. Below the banner, mermaids with orange hair ride the backs of large fish, each fish carrying a white value: 50000, 60000, 70000, 80000, 90000 across the upper band, and 40000, 300000, 20000, 100000 on a descending diagonal at the left. Centre-right is the title MERMAID in tall slanted tapered capital letters, yellow-to-cream with a salmon-pink outline. Left of the title a blonde mermaid in a red top reclines on a rock, propped on one elbow, with a golden fish-tailed body stretching to the right. Below is a red-framed rectangular window showing a separate sunset seascape: an orange sun on the horizon, a tiny silhouetted figure in a boat holding a fishing rod, and two narrow slot reels. The lower third is a coral reef packed with pink, orange, blue and yellow fish, a red-haired woman in a blue two-piece standing at lower left, a blonde swimmer beside her, and a dark-haired woman at lower right beside an open treasure chest. A white oval artist plaque sits at mid-left.