Volume 27 Number 1 Founded in 1991 Our Twenty-Seventh Year February 2017

In this Issue:

Message from the President – Ed McLaughlin

New CBCS members

“Experience Grand Rapids” – 2017 Convention Planning

The Pattburg Collection – Part 2 – Jane McLaughlin

Restoration of a Doerner Manufacturing Company Hedgehog Cribbage Board – Cec Bradshaw

Jay Fulwider’s article in the March 2016 ACC Newsletter

2017 Membership Dues form

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Fellow CBCS Collectors:

We are enjoying receiving monthly Cribbage World since joining ACC. They contain interesting and informative articles. CBCS members give us recognition in this monthly publication. Following is what I found interesting:

Dave Akien, Editor of Cribbage World and new member of CBCS, wrote an article titled My Deal in the February Cribbage World (page 4). He questioned if there ever existed a “29” cribbage board with a 5 of Clubs as the cut card. I checked our small collection of fourteen “29” boards and I found nothing but diamonds and hearts. It seems that Mr. Hong Kong and J. A. Pan seemed to prefer diamonds, hearts, or no pictured cards at all. The most recent “29” created by the most recent Bill Drueke has only numbers and letter “J” with no picture of cards. This

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gives us something new to search for. How about your collections? What do you find in your “29s”?

Jay Fulwider also writes “Cribbage Board of the Month.” Each month he covers a unique board. Joyce Betz is also noted in her ranking 14th in the Central Region Sanctioned Cribbage Tournaments. There may be other CBCS members mentioned but I did not recognize them.

This newly formed association between ACC and CBCS seems to be positive. I’m looking forward to the closely associated Grand National Tournament and CBCS’s Annual Convention in Milwaukee, WI on September 18-23, 2018. Plans are being made to firm up our convention details. More information to follow.

Meanwhile, I hope you are making plans to attend the CBCS convention in Grand Rapids, MI this September 2017.

Keep on peggin’, searchin’ and learnin’

Ed McLaughlin, President CBCS

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Welcome new CBCS members:

#314 Jeffrey R. Miller - Grand Haven, Michigan

#315 Todd Ross – Arvada, Colorado

#316 Scott Lee – Glenside, Pennsylvania

#317 Scott Hooper – Vancouver, Washington

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“Experience Grand Rapids”

One of the New York Times 52 Places to Go in 2016. The #1 U.S. travel destination in 2014.

Home to one of the globe's top five festivals. Grand Rapids, Michigan is all of this and so much

more - a city that will constantly surprise and delight you with authentic and unforgettable

world-class experiences made easy, affordable and friendly. Make your vacation plans to

experience Grand Rapids, while attending the 2017 annual CBCS convention.

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Get Ready to:

CBCS 2017 Convention – Grand Rapids, Michigan

September 15 and 16, 2017

Convention Hosts:

Dan and Joyce Betz, Sandy Nieuwenhuis, Cec and Betz Bradshaw

Welcome to Holiday Inn Grand Rapids DowntownWe want to welcome you to downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan at the Holiday Inn® hotel for a truly great 2017 CBCS convention! The hotel's thoughtful location in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan is 15 miles from Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR). It is ideally positioned in the heart of downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, this hotel's property will easily allow easy access to cultural sites, including Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) and Gerald Ford Presidential Museum. Nearby entertainment venues like Van Andel Arena feature hockey games and big-name performers, while John Ball Park Zoo ensures family fun.

The Gerald R. Ford Museum Reopens June 7 Bigger and Better Than Ever

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is right across the street from our convention hotel and will reopen its doors June 7 after undergoing a nearly eight month and a $13 million dollar renovation giving museum guests a more interactive experience as they learn about the life of President Ford from childhood to the White House and beyond.

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The redesigned 13,000 square foot second floor exhibit area welcomes visitors with a new theater area, six galleries covering President Ford’s life from 1913-2006 and 400 items on display including many for the first time.

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture ParkSculpture Collection & ExhibitionsRanked in the top 100 most-visited art museums worldwide by Art Newspaper, the leading publication in global art news, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park has grown to become an international destination. The sculpture program features more than 200 works in the

permanent collection sited both indoors and outdoors on the 158-acre main campus.

The permanent collection focuses on works by established and emerging sculptors from the Modern tradition to the present. Earliest works date to the second half of the 19th century with masters such as Carrier-Belluese, Degas, and Rodin. Starting with these masters, the comprehensive presentation includes sculptors from the late 19th century to the present.

Click on this link to learn more about this amazing attraction. www.meijergardens.org

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Note: Convention registration forms will be in the next issue of the newsletter. Start planning for a great convention and vacation in Grand Rapids this year. Membership dues are due on May 1 – form is on last page.

Pattberg Novelty Co. New York (Part 2 of 2)

Manufacturers of Adult Games since 1859

Label on the right is gold and brown foil attached to the back of

Boards.

Pattberg # 622 wooden folding hinged board. No stenciling or grooves – very plain. Metal clasp. Wooden pegs. Measures 9 ¾” X 3” folded out.

Brown print box with label on end “No. 622 Cribbage Set, Pattberg NY.” (Ed McLaughlin Collection)

← Note the metal hinge used in the box boards

with 6 pins to hold in place.

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Note the metal clasp used on the folding box boards

Pattberg # 489 Leather carrying case containing small folding cribbage board, cards, and instructions. Board measures 7” X 2” out flat. Metal hinge. Metal slide cover with plastic pegs. Cards are in new condition. Plain brown box with label on end “No. 489 Game Set, Pattberg, NY.” (B. Bemis Collection)

← Cards stored in board. They may or may not be the originals.

Pattberg # 89 from the collection of Larry Snow. Beautiful workmanship with center inlay, routed sides.

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Brown paper box with label “No.89 Cribbage Board, Pattberg NY.

Pattberg #621 Light colored stenciling. Wooden slider on side to hold cards and pegs. Cork pads on bottom of board. Brown paper box with “No. 621 Cribbage Set, Pattberg NY.

(From the Collection of Larry Snow.)

Note this board is identical to #694 but with light stenciling instead of the black stenciling. Even though the boards are alike the numbers are far apart (#621 to #694).

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Pattberg #810. A traveling leatherette pouch holding a folding cribbage board of reddish wood with cards. This travel set looks like #489 above but numbered far apart. A brown paper box with “No. 810 Game Set, Pattberg NY.” (From the Collection of Larry Snow.)

The many boxes the Pattbergs come in!

There seems to be 2 edge styles of boards. Routed edge as in the front board and the round-over ends as in the back board. The folding box boards have a distinct clasp and metal hinges.

This is only a gathering of Pattberg boards. I hope to find out more about the company in the future. Their label is very recognizable. If anyone has any others, I would greatly appreciate

receiving a picture and description of them.

Jane McLaughlin #131A realvet63@gmail.com September 2016

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Restoration of a Doerner Manufacturing Company Hedgehog Cribbage Board

(Patent Pending 1974)

This is a Doerner Manufacturing Company Hedgehog cribbage board. The only information I gathered from researching the internet is that Dorerner may have been a furniture manufacuturer. I purchased it at the 2016 CBCS Convention silent auction. It was ugly, the pegs did not work hardly at all, and I got it cheap! The board is 9 3/4 inches long and 2 7/8 inches wide. My objective was to transform this board into a pretty board and one that worked well. This is the finished product pictured here and these are the steps used to get it into a collectible condition once again. (It cannot compare to a John Gill Hedgehog)

Step 1. I disassembled the board. Here are the pieces that make up the finished product. A top piece, a strip of leather, a bottom piece, 5 screws and 120 brass pegs. Note that a John Gill Hedgehog uses piano felt to provide the friction and holding power for the pull up pegs. This Doerner board uses leather. I figured the leather had shrunk over time and therefore prevented easy movement of the pegs up and down.

Step 2. I used vaseline and smeared it all over the leather and into the holes, hoping that would relax the leather and allow the pegs to glide more easily yet still provide the friction to hold the pegs.

Step 3. This was a “painful process” of polishing each peg with brass polish. Not only did the pegs look much better, but my thought was that the polished pegs would slide more easily in the holes during play.

Note: the bottom of each peg has been flattened which is what prevents the peg from coming out

of the playing surface when pulled up.

Step 4. I sanded the top and bottom pieces of the cribbage board. Once sanded, I used an oil modified, water based Minwax satin polyurethane. After each of two applications, the surface was sanded to a fine smooth finish.

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Once the finish was dry and sanded, the pieces were reaasembled and bingo, a nice looking, smooth working hedgehog emerged and joined my display between two John Gill hedgeghogs.

Jay Fulwider’s article in the March 2016 ACC Newsletter

This month I am featuring three unique boards. They do have one thing in common; they are all very hard to play on. The top board is a standard wood, twice around, board. It is nicely made with narrow strips of wood inlays that are about 1/8” deep. The inlays delineate the groups of five peg holes. The only problem, as you can see, is that the holes are drilled at angles. It looks rather cool, but really takes some getting used to.

The middle board was manufactured by Kencroft Associates of Buffalo, NY. It was even patented. The patent, No. D-144.417, was issued to Ralph T. Rycroft 4-9-1946. It is a three player board that zig zags up the groups of five holes. It is a 121 point board, but trying to figure out “board position” or a “skunk” is difficult.

The last board I made. I just like unusual boards and didn’t have any need for this shoe horn. I played one game on it and that was enough. It is very tipsy.

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Over the years, many people have asked me why I collect cribbage boards. Other than I like it, I have never had a real good answer. Recently, my wife came across an answer by Gretchen Rubin, author of “The Happiness Project”. She says “A collection provides a mission, a reason to visit new places, the excitement of the chase, a field of expertise (no matter how trivial), and often, a bond with other people.” She said it sounded like fun and I can vouch that it is.

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