- Museum number
- C927A153.1
C927A153.2
C927A153.3
C927A153.4
C927A153.5
C927A153.6 - Object
- Counter box with brass star
- Description
- Circular ivory screw top box lined with pink satin and blue plush linings; the lid inlaid with gold dots in star pattern and gold circle.Within are four tortoiseshell circular counters inlaid with silver rectangles enclosing gold diamonds 1,2,3,4,
- Materials
- Ivory
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Container
Lid
counter
counter
counter
counter - Dimensions
- framed: 1.2000cm (h)
Playing cards and gaming counters
English and French
Card, tortoiseshell, ivory, about 1800
C927A.145& 149, 1998.3, 5-8
C927A153, F104F, F181A-C
Cards, played for money, took on an almost obsessive character in Bath: ‘Persons of all Characters and Denominations sit down to Cards from Morning to Night and Night to Morning…’ wrote one visitor in 1737.
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