Here are open questions, research areas, and areas for follow up that have been identified for further investigation on the tiddlywinks history and digital preservation and dissemination front.
If you have leads on any of these fronts, please contact NATwA!
- Find authoritative photographs of Joseph Assheton Fincher, who originally patented and trademarked the game of Tiddledy-Winks.
[to do ID • Fincher-photo] - Locate contemporaneous photographs of the buildings where Joseph Assheton Fincher lived (9, Berners Street and 114, Oxford Street in London)
[to do ID • Fincher-london-addresses] - Find authoritative photographs of other tiddlywinks makers and patentees
[to do ID • other-tw-maker-photos] - Determine if Ayres trademarked Spoof
[to do ID • Spoof-intellectual-property] - Determine who came up with the name Continentals as the name of NATwA’s team championships.
[to do ID • Continentals-naming] - Determine how and when the terms “squidger” and “squidge” became integral elements of tiddlywinks lexicon. Note that “squidge” is already well-known to mean “squeeze”.
[to do ID • squidger-naming] - Locate scores with winker names from the initial NATwA match on 26–27 February 1966.
[to do ID • 1966-tournament-scores] - Find original or text from ScotTwA’s The Squopsman, numbers 2 and 5
[to do ID • squopsman-issues] - Locate missing Winking Worlds
[to do ID • missing-Winking-Worlds] - Locate Jeu de tiddly by Peter Downes
[to do ID • jeu-de-tiddly]