c1930 Bridge Game Set

Description

Leather Binding, Very Scarce

A very smart bridge game set in a morocco clamshell box, containing two complete sets of playing cards, one red and one black, alongside a pouch which contains a pencil and twenty-three blank scoring sheets.

This compact box would have been ideal for playing the game on the go. 

Gilt initials 'M. E. H. de B.' to the front board, being M. E. H. de Bruyne.

Bridge, as it is played now, was evolved from the game of whist in the nineteenth century, the first rule book for the game being published in 1886.

The modern game of contract bridge developed partly due to innovations of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, a champion player of the illustratious family.