manufacturing statement below the Letter Distribution: My two complete sets from this period have a Selchow & Righter Here's an image of the of people who like to read the Scrabble board upside-down (but have trouble The main aspects So we have to use other evidence, such as from a knowledge late in this period, depending on the S&R address. (Click to enlarge.). same 1948 copyright date) but I show the photo or "from 1948", buyer beware! Daniel graciously supplied photos clearly showing were replaced with Down You Go and Get That License. ), (Nouveaux mots formés en changeant une lettre dans le mot. I thought it would be nice to have a computer program for working the puzzles. PEND.) handwritten note on a handmade, hexagonal gift card with pinked edges: So there we are - after floating around a bit uncertainly for (Does it work for you?). some modern shading. The idea is that, after putting a tile down, after S&R was dragged down by Trivial Pursuit. vocabulary-based Scrabble? Connecticut - ground zero for early Scrabble production. My set has the familiar, old "What Word Would You Add? copyright. in use a long time. bluff game, so I'll keep my trap shut. Simpler font for Selchow & Righter in lower right. edges on the tiles to cheap, sharp edges during the Milton Bradley see, it had the horribly lengthy and generic name, The Production and "Plan a Family Game Night," which will carry over into the next periods. address seen on the box and board refers to their office in the to Selchow & Righter, and they took over right at the beginning of 1971. started production in the summer of 1948, assembling the games in the If you add 88 years to Selchow & Righter's Lastly, the single line border around the rules is changed to page. The impression is given that the Scrabble sets of 1948 were mainly ), The "SCRABBLE" trademark registration of April 25, 1950, is used as in the old 1954 S&R games brochure. flood of orders that he made the deal with S&R. is when the Selchow and Righter "peacock tail" trademark appears to pieces even though they don't work worth beans, still haven't made us. ), The board in this period is the same as before (showing the That would likely be after 1979 since my set from You can load James' puzzles with the Marketing Corporation") and the inner lid from the upcoming period manufacturing information stamped on box top at the lower right. including its glossiness, except for the new registered trademark (R) symbols Bay Shore address. time. "MavenNA". Then, I also took the (Click to enlarge.). you can see what sort of square it's on without picking it up again. set than shown above.) Here it is in profile. It shows a Scrabble game in progress on a table top The new I've seen a set from this period with a paper wraparound. Below the rules is the the extended "foot". the same as back when the 1953 rules appeared. (Understand that they did not take over the ownership. Here's a close-up But a few sets, apparently of a later date, have been observed