Just wondering if anyone owning a 1964 Gottlieb "Bowling Queen" has the older domed style daisy caps installed as original equipment. I picked one up recently that had '70s bumpers installed on it. The seller, who had owned it for something like 30 years, gave me the original daisy caps. They were the domed type. One of the blue ones has a chunk taken out of it. At the time, he couldn't get the replacement cap or the bumpers themselves, so he fitted it with '70s style bumpers. He kept the original caps, and passed them on to me when I bought the game.
Now I'm restoring the playfield, and will of course replace the bumpers with the original style. This is the fourth copy of "Bowling Queen" that I've owned, and the other three all have the flat top style daisy caps on them. I'm wondering if these are really original (the serial number is fairly low), or if they were incorrectly installed on this game a long time ago. While I'm at it, I could use an original domed style blue daisy cap with "POINTS 10 WHEN LIT" printed on the white center disc. PBR of course has reproductions, but the blue part is not marbled like the original.
Anyhow, I'd like to hear from those of you who own a "Bowling Queen", especially if yours has the older domed style bumper caps.

Thanks. If you could, please post the serial number of your game. I'm trying to determine if the cap style was transitioned sometime during the run of "Bowling Queen". Early copies of "North Star" had domed "dead" bumper caps, and it seems later ones had the flat slanted type.

Those are definitely not the original caps. Those are starburst caps which came around a little later. Yours has a very low serial number though. Lower than mine.

"Starburst" caps first appeared (on a Gottlieb) on "Happy Clown", which is four games after "Bowling Queen". The game's flyer shows it with daisy caps, but I think they all had starburst caps. Early copies of it had the "beehive" style shooter bezel and the thinner push-up rod. It was during this game's run that they transitioned to the flat "rhomboid" shaped steel bezel and the heftier push-up rod. The following game, "Sky Line", had starburst caps too, although early production and samples had daisy caps. That was the last appearance of daisy caps on a Gottlieb.

Yes, and "Bowling Queen" is older than "North Star", so you would think they would have the domed caps. Hmm.

I'm beginning to think none had the domed caps as original equipment. I was given domed caps by the previous owner, and he said he had the game about 30 years.