Bidspirit auction | Northwestern Poosh-M-Up Big 5 Bagatelle

Northwestern Poosh-M-Up Big 5 Bagatelle - 23x13 A Northwestern Products Poosh-M-Up Big 5 tabletop bagatelle game, manufactured in St. Louis, Missouri. This multi-game unit features a 5-in-1 design intended for playing Put-N-Take, Baseball, Pennants, Bagatelle, and Twenty-One. The lithographed playfield is decorated with humorous cartoon illustrations of various athletes, including a baseball batter, a football player, and horse racing jockeys. The game is housed in a light-colored wooden frame with a glass front and a fiberboard backing. The mechanism utilizes a manual, spring-loaded metal plunger located on the bottom right side for launching balls. The playfield is fitted with multiple metal pins and wire scoring cups, and it retains several original steel balls. Printed markings at the top left of the playfield include Made in U.S.A., Northwestern Products St. Louis, Mo., and Pat No 1925018. The center displays the Poosh-M-Up Big 5 logo, while the bottom section features a banner listing the five game modes. The playfield also contains various numbered triangular flags labeled P1 through P5 and T1 through T5, associated with point values ranging from 100 to 1000 and baseball outcomes such as Single, Walk, Out, and Home Run. A wire hanger is attached to the frame for wall mounting.