Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… 59.533.1460. Image Court of Equity Betting Book (Sept. 16, 1769 – June 30, 1772). Image ‘Insurance on Lives, satirical playing-card, part of a ‘Bubble Companies’ card deck’, 1720, © The Trustees of the British Museum. Résumé The betting … This specific object can be considered as the physical expression of the practice of betting and testifies both to the playful and conflictual form of sociable interactions. Objects > Sports & Gaming accessories Mots-clés Conflict … their personal and collective values, interests, motives and anxieties. Moreover, it reveals that this leisure practice played a significant part in strategies of distinction through conspicuous consumption and sociable performance. The …
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