Brist : the new lawn game : instructions for throwing the Brist boomerang, illustrated
- Bib ID:
- 7756699
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. Broadside 1250 copy
- Printer:
- Topeka : Adams Bros., Printers.
- Description:
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- Topeka, Kansas : Brist Company, [1903]
- ©1903
- 1 sheet : illustrations ; 35.2 x 26.7 cm
- Summary:
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A sheet, printed recto and verso, probably included with the game sets. The game was named after its inventor, Sam Bristow. The recto provides detailed instructions about how to - and how not to throw the boomerang - illustrated with eight 'figures', four of them photographs, four line sketches. Players also needed to use a 'Rakah' or catching racket, shown in one of the figures. The verso explains how the competitive game of Brist was to be played, how points are scored for boomerangs returning closest to the centre of serveral concentric circles, etc. -Adapted from John W. Carbonell, April 2018.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- The text and illustrations on the recto also appear on pages 10-18 of the company's booklet, Rules of brist and instructions for throwing the brist boomerang (1903). The text and illustration on the verso summarize the rules of the game, as given in more detail in pages 5-10 of the booklet. The booklet is also available in digital form on the Internet Archive website at https://archive.org/details/rulesofbristinst00unse.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2397708627 Broadside 1250 copy
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Brist Company (Topeka, Kansas), issuing body
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1973 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1903
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