Bridge set
date: label: date made
content: 1927
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A bridge set consisting of 4 score tablets, numbered 1 through 4. Each tablet has a celluloid cover in a different color (blue, red, black, and gold). The gold cover is marbled; the rest are solid. Each tablet cover has a stylized design made of three angular pieces of celluloid glued to the top left-hand corner. These tablets are for auction bridge, which was developed from straight bridge in 1904 and was a precursor to contract bridge.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Auction bridge is scored whenever the required number of tricks (9 in No Trump; 10 in Hearts and Spades; 11 in Clubs or Diamonds) is scored. In contract bridge, the number of points from tricks taken past bid do not count towards making a game. Bridge evolved from whist, an earlier trick-taking game.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Games
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1462
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1462
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bridge set
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (back material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.7 cm x 7 cm x .6 cm; 4 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall; each: 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 5/8 in; .635 cm x 6.985 cm x 11.7475 cm