Alan, you probably have the date for your little spinner game about right.
Several versions of the game, in varying sizes, were made as premiums or promotional items for several different companies beginning around 1912.
Your version is reportedly a Cracker Jack premium (according to experts on Cracker Jack premiums). Because another version of the game had been produced to advertise the candy maker Shotwell Mfg, and Shotwell was absorbed by Cracker Jack in 1926, our best guess is that your version is from later than 1926, but not much later.
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