Red Crown Bowling Pin made by Brunswick
name: label: maker
content: Brunswick Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wooden bowling pin with a white plastic coating and a red crown design around the neck. This is an American Bowling Congress Permit No. 5 model bowling pin made by Brunswick. Brunswick went into business in 1845 but did not start making bowling equipment until the 1890s when Moses Bensinger, the son-in-law of Brunswick founder J.M. Brunswick, became an advocate for the game. In 1895 he created the American Bowling Congress to standardize the game and five years later organized America's first bowling tournament with Brunswick supplying all the equipment. Brunswick continued to innovate with new materials for balls and pins and the automatic pin setter which revolutionized the game once again.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Skokie
topic: label: name of sport
content: Bowling
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Brunswick Corporation, through Milton Rudo
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0181.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0181
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0181.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin, bowling
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 4 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 11.43 cm