Bowling pins

From the collections of PVMA • Digital image © Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assoc. • Image use information

About this item

These bowling pins would have been known as “Nine Pins”. A common way of playing  would have been to put eight pins in a circle around the slightly fancier pin (with a line etched around the head in this example). Each player rolls twice per turn, acquiring points as long as the center pin stands. It should be the last to fall. Should it fall too soon, a player loses their points and starts again.

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Item typeToy, Game
TopicSocial Activities, Entertainment, Recreation
Family, Children, Marriage, Courtship
EraColonial settlement, 1620–1762
Revolutionary America, 1763–1783
The New Nation, 1784–1815
National Expansion and Reform, 1816–1860
MaterialWood
Catalog #1999.13.512
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Bowling pins. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1999-13-512/. Accessed on December 9, 2024.

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