Baxter the Bedlington Terrier and Rick Tucker
Baxter the Bedlington Terrier & Rick Tucker
26 May 2005 · Doggie Happy Hour · Alexandria VA USA
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RickTucker.com

Please also visit these other websites managed by Rick Tucker:

Tiddlywinks.org · GameCatalog.org
ginHill.com · granDuo.com
GalleryRandom.com · AmazePhoto.com
PatricksDesigns.com

Examine my résumé and my genealogy.

However, recruiters should not contact me.

Duty and honor

A tribute to those who serve, defend, and protect.

Looking beyond the attack on the Pentagon
and the World Trade Center.

Tiddlywinks

I've played competitive tiddlywinks since 1972... over a third of a century! Winks is in fashion among an intriguing coterie in England, Scotland, and the U.S. of A. The oft-ridiculed game has an incredible history.

Tiddlywinks played at the South Pole, 3 December 2001
Tiddlywinks at the South Pole · 3 December 2001

McLoughlin Bros., Tiddledy Winks - A Round Game, publisher no. 7728, from around the 1910s, Tucker Tw ID MCL-14
Tiddledy Winks - A Round Game
by McLoughlin Bros., #7728 · ~1910s
(Tucker catalog MCL-14)


Polaris Company, the game Polaris, from 1923
The game Polaris, from the Polaris Company · © 1923

 

Game & Puzzle Collecting

The Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors brings together collectors of all ilks. From the everyday Rook and Monopoly to the exotic Man in the Moon and the Mansion of Happiness, the AGPC knows everything that can be known about games and puzzles... unless you know something we don't!

Check out Rick Tucker's AGPC pages for photos and so forth of AGPC conventions and regional meetings.

Rick is also a member of the Benevolent Confraternity of Dissectologists... jigsaw puzzle collectors!  Take a look at  BCD event photos.

In 2008, Rick joined the European Society of Game-collectors (Europäische Spielesammler Gilde e. V.).

Rick maintains the Game Catalog of all known games.  Just a click away!

Find me on eBay as RickTucker.

Photography

... analog and digital. From tintypes and Plus-X to holograms to JPEGs and raw digitals and Blu-Ray DVDs, snapshots and videos of us as we are, nonchalant or poseurs. A record for those who follow.

E23-15, Dec 1979 Tucker shooting winks in strobe lab 50dpi DM.JPG (69432 bytes)
December 1979 · Rick Tucker


Doc Edgerton's Strobe Lab, MIT · Cambridge MA

Stapelia (carrion plant) in bloom
Stapelia (carrion plant)

Liatris in bloom
Liatris

Gardening

When in doubt, find me tending my garden... of houseplants, perennials, annuals, shrubs, bonsai, orchids, and well, everything!

Genealogy

... of the Tucker, Wagner, Claflin, Benzler, Geiss, Gould, Popkin, Potter, and other families.

My great-grandfather, Frelinghuysen Wagner
My great-grandfather, Frelinghuysen Wagner
Born 20 October 1844 · Died 9 March 1918
USA Civil War veteran · School teacher
Berks County, Pennsylvania & Washington DC USA

 

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