What-is-it question LXXVII.

Post by **2209patrick** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:25 pm

This sterling silver item was made around 1910.
It measures 2 inches (5.08cm.) by 3.5 inches (8.89cm.).
What was it used for?

Pat.
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kerangoumar · Post by **kerangoumar** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:05 pm

The nearest thing I have in my collections is an early calculator, but this has to be a bit simpler.
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larkfield · Post by **larkfield** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:10 pm

A wild guess - a points recorder such as a crib board or for card games
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Post by **2209patrick** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:53 pm

Hello.
Kerangoumar, sorry, it's not an early calculator.

Larkfield, you are close, but it's not for cribbage or card games.

Pat.
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Post by **JLDoggett** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:46 am

A golf scorekeeper... there are 18 holes. If so on hole 10 he is way over par!
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Post by **2209patrick** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:03 pm

JLDoggett, well done.
Yes, it's a golf score keeper.

Pat.
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kerangoumar · Post by **kerangoumar** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:56 am

One would think that with a set of St Andrews mashie niblicks et al in my closet I'd have twigged to the 18 as representing holes! Goes to show that one can be looking right at something and not see it. Were these very popular? & where?
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dmay · Post by **dmay** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:50 am

And for those of us who can be real duffers on the course, do the stroke numbers go above 9?!
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Post by **2209patrick** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:10 am

Kerangoumar, I thought the 18 numbers would have given it away more quickly too.
The book doesn't say who made it.
Have only seen a couple of these from the early 20th century.

Dmay, that's the great thing about this scorekeeper, the worst you can get is a nine.

Pat.
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