1876 Redgrave Parlor Bagatelle

The Redgrave Parlor Bagatelle is a single-player mechanical table game associated with Montague Redgrave and dated to 1876. Bagatelle, a table game descended from billiards in which a ball is struck toward numbered scoring holes guarded by pins, is a direct ancestor of pinball. Redgrave is a pivotal figure in that lineage: his 1871 United States patent for improvements in bagatelle introduced a coiled-spring plunger to launch the ball and adopted a smaller ball and pins, innovations that shaped the design of coin-operated pin games decades later.

As a parlor bagatelle, this is a purely mechanical, hand-operated home amusement rather than a coin-operated or electro-mechanical machine. Players used the spring plunger to send a ball up and across a slanted, pin-studded board, scoring according to the holes the ball entered. It has no flippers or electronic components of any kind.

The item is listed in the Pinside database and is not catalogued on the Internet Pinball Database, so precise manufacturing and distribution details for this specific model are not well documented.