Tally


To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what I've found. Small, 2 inch by 3 1/2 inch "Tally" booklet. Cover is embossed paper with cameo decoration, paper inside is thick stock cardboard, bound by yellow thread with reddish tassel at the end.

Found in "Out of the NIght" by Rida Johnson Young. Published by Jacobsen, 1925.

Readers - any guesses? What do you think they might be tallying? (Don't say bananas)

at 6/17/2009
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6 comments:

  1. JenniferJune 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    My guess is for a card game... perhaps euchre or bridge? Maybe a giveaway from a card party or some such.

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  2. Sheila KJune 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    Yep...looks like a bridge tally to me.

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  3. Michael PopekJune 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    bridge... of course.

    nice work.

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  4. BrandyJuly 26, 2009 at 11:13 PM

    Or a dance card?

    Hmm... Card game score sheet for a bridge party looks more correct here...


    Awesome stuff!

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  5. KathrynAugust 31, 2009 at 10:08 PM

    My grandma used to have bridge parties...this is a bridge tally with a pretty little cover for it. Very nice!

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  6. WhitePineLaneSeptember 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM

    Oooh - I thought some kind of dance card too, but a bridge tally makes more sense. (I don't play bridge, so I wouldn't have thought of that).

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