JF Ptak Science Books Daily Dose from Dr. Odd
The beautifully and accurately named Rubber Tipped Arrow Company supplied an assortment of parlor games for children (and adults) for “perfectly harmless” shooting. The truth is that I really liked the image of progression of shooters, reminding me a little of the “Ages of Man” prints. This appears in the advertising section of the Scientific American for 3 August 1890–two issue before their famous cover showing Herman Hollerith’s critical calculating machines at use in the American census.
And this ad, from one of their competitors, found in The American Stationer, 1889, page 957: