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I decided to manufacture the game myself. I copyrighted it. I registered the Gander Game Company at city hall. I made a trademark
design and had a rubber stamp made of it - a Goose, wings-up running, neck outstretched in a circle. Then I had to make game boards, select the cardboard and then decorative backing. I found that hard-back book cover vellum material was best with a good glue. Then I had to learn how to silk screen and have a silk screen made.
The Silk Screen making was an interesting drama with the socialist and the capitalist.
The socialist had ethics. He wanted the best quality and it must be ink. But he was not a
environmentalist. I did not want to be flushing ink residues down the sink drain. So I told him in very explicit terms, a silk screen for water base ink. He argued with me but agreed and that is why I know it was explicit.
So he did it his way and gave me a silk screen for oil base. I made him take it back and do it over again. And waited and waited for him to finish it, and finally went and took it away from him, it being about four weeks by then. So I took it to a capitalist down-town. He gave me what I wanted and in three days.
Silk screening was tricky and I did it in the pottery shop on one of the throwing wheel tables. It was a piece of silk stretched across a square wood frame. The silk screen was composed of my game squares with every other one blocked-out with impervious ink material. I rolled the game board a solid color. Then placing the silk screen on the ink dried board and using a different color ink, with a squeegee, press-drag the ink across the silk so that it darker-colored every other square, making my checker board.
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