Identity area
Reference code
IE LMOD 397
Title
1930s Butchers Social Union Bingo Card
Date(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Leather. 7 x 21 cm
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
07/07/2011
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Lr Gardiner St. Possibly 1930s – regularly stolen to heel shoes so holes were put in to stop that. Brown with numbers evenly spaced and with 3 holes. Also has initials BSU on it twice.
In the 1930s the Butchers Social Union found themselves faced with a mystery. Their leather bingo cards kept going missing. One day someone noticed that bingo players were stealing the cards to patch holes in their shoes. So the Union decided to stamp several holes in the cards, thus foiling the thieves.
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Wear from age, especially scratch marks around middle.
