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1900's Shagreen and Silver Mounted Card Box from Northern Europe
1900's Shagreen and Silver Mounted Card Box from Northern Europe
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Dimensions (cm): 13.5 x 21 x 5
Year: 1900
A North European early 20th century shagreen and silver mounted card box, the light green shagreen case with a silver banded rim and small maker's mark IB. The hinged lid opening to reveal a mahogany-lined interior with divisions for two packs of cards.
Shagreen is a type of rawhide consisting of untanned animal skin, commonly from sharks or rayfish, which is dyed with a green vegetable dye.
A craze for Bridge swept Edwardian England and women in particular. Ladies were known to play hands in-between eating, before going to bed, and would neglect dancing in favour of sitting down for a game in the drawing room. The founding of ladies' bridge clubs in the mould of gentleman's clubs fostered this obsession, for now women would give the same excuse as their husbands as to why they were late to supper.
Bar Code: 10215