1952 · Williams
Sportsman
Flat pale sky-blue band across the top quarter, yellow-to-orange radiating sunset sky over a low horizon, large red-orange sun disc with white highlight, small white cottage with dark roof on the horizon, band of green marsh grass and reeds, blue-green water dotted with round lily pads and dark green trees on the right edge.
- Year
- 1952
- Maker
- Williams
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Backglass lights
- Players
- 1
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
- yellow
- blue
- orange
- green
Fingerprint: Sportsman title in yellow-orange script on maroon cartouche with sunburst rays, mallards and geese flying over sunset marsh, white hares on right bank, swimming ducks on lily-pad water, small cottage on horizon, bright saturated colors
The single most memorable element is the enormous yellow-and-orange 'Sportsman' script logo sitting on a maroon splash cartouche with white sunburst rays, paired with the huge '1-2-3-4-5-6-7 Million' numerals filling the rest of the blue sky band. Second is the zig-zag ribbon of coloured score-value lozenges (190,000 through 900,000) marching diagonally across the sky just below the title. Third, the whole lower two thirds is one continuous sporting-country wildlife scene rather than a game diagram: a blazing red sun on the horizon, a skein of flying mallards and geese, swimming ducks on lily-pad-dotted water, and two white hares with a snake and a turtle on the right bank. Fourth, the small white cottage with dark roof sitting directly on the horizon line under the sun.
Setting
- Flat pale sky-blue band across the top quarter
- Yellow-to-orange radiating sunset sky over a low horizon
- Large red-orange sun disc with white highlight
- Small white cottage with dark roof on the horizon
- Band of green marsh grass and reeds
- Blue-green water dotted with round lily pads
- Dark green trees on the right edge
Symbols
- Maroon splash cartouche with white sunburst rays behind the logo
- White star sparkle glints scattered in the blue sky
- Zig-zag ribbon of coloured score-value lozenges
- Falling bare tree trunk and branch framing the right edge
- Round lily pads on the water
- Dark conifer trees on the right bank
- Radiating yellow-orange sunburst rays from the horizon sun
Lettering
- 'williams' in small white cursive script; 'sportsman' in very large slanted yellow-to-orange script letters with a thick white outline and dark red drop shadow on a maroon splash; '1-2-3-4-5-6-7' in heavy sans-serif block numerals alternating red and yellow with black outlines; 'million' in flowing red cursive script; score values in white numerals on solid coloured lozenges
Themes
- Country sporting
- Marshland wetland
- Sunset
- Wildfowl shooting
- Game birds
- Hunting
- Nature
- Outdoors
Title on it
- Sportsman
Text on it
- Williams
- Sportsman
- 1-2-3-4-5-6-7
- Million
- 190,000
- 200,000
- 300,000
- 400,000
- 500,000
- 600,000
- 700,000
- 800,000
- 900,000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Animal | Six mallard ducks in flight crossing left to right, brown and tan bodies with dark green heads and yellow bills, wings spread, one leading far left and one trailing at far right |
| Animal | Three pale cream geese or swans flying in a line at upper right, long necks stretched forward and orange bills, wings fully spread |
| Animal | Mallard drake swimming left foreground, glossy dark green head, white neck ring, grey-brown body, orange feet |
| Animal | Second mallard drake swimming at left middle distance, same green head and white ring, leaving a small wake |
| Animal | Third mallard drake swimming at right middle, head turned slightly, on the open water |
| Animal | A tan-brown swallow or wading bird standing upright in the shallow water at lower left-centre among lily pads, long thin legs |
| Animal | A large white hare at right bank sitting upright, long ears with pink inner ear, white body outlined in black, facing left |
| Animal | A second white hare at right bank crouched low in the grass facing right, pink-lined ears laid back, drawn as if about to bound |
| Animal | A snake coiled in a spiral in the grass at the far right below the hares, pale green and yellow with a forked tongue |
| Animal | A turtle with a dark brown domed shell perched on a fallen tree trunk at the bottom right corner |
Framed painted backglass, set in a flat bright sky-blue band at the top over a yellow-and-orange radiating sunset marsh scene. Top left: a maroon splash-shaped cartouche with white sunburst rays behind it carrying 'Williams' in small white script above 'Sportsman' in huge slanted yellow-orange script letters outlined white, then dark red. Top right: '1-2-3-4-5-6-7' in large alternating red and yellow block numerals with black outlines, 'Million' below in red cursive script. Beneath runs a zig-zag ribbon of coloured lozenge banners carrying score values 190,000, 200,000, 300,000, 400,000, 500,000, 600,000, 700,000, 800,000 and 900,000, banded green, magenta, purple, red, orange and gold with white numerals. The lower two thirds show a wetland at sunset: a red-orange sun disc with a white highlight sits low on the horizon behind a small white cottage with a dark roof, with radiating yellow-orange rays and a band of green marsh grass. A skein of ducks and geese flies left to right across the yellow sky - brown mallards and pale geese with orange bills. In blue-green water scattered with round lily pads swim three mallards with glossy green heads and one tan swallow-like bird standing in the shallows. On the right bank two white hares with pink-lined ears sit and crouch in grass beside a coiled snake and a turtle on a fallen log. Style is flat, brightly saturated cartoon illustration with heavy black outlines.