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LastDodo number
805881
Area
Board games
Title
Whistdoos
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Year
1925
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Estimated year. Wooden box to store chips and cards. Perry & Co advertises in a 1925 brochure with similar boxes under the name "Whist box" Omber (El Hombre) is originally a Spanish card game for three people. The quadrille is a variant of this developed in the eighteenth century for four people. This variant would later be outdone in popularity by the variants bosten, whist and eventually bridge respectively. The Umbra game had a clearly distinguished look, just like its successor, bridge, which still has today. Umber, quadrille and whist boxes were token boxes that were in use in the said games.

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