Dance Card and Pencil
Production date
Early 20th Century
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Object detail
Description
Dance Card and Pencil, the rectangle dance card is attached to a small metal propelling pencil by a gold coloured ribbon. The card has handwriting in pencil on once surface. The inscription has both numbers and words but only the numbers are legible.
Classification
DOCUMENTS
PERSONAL EFFECTS
PERSONAL EFFECTS
Production date
Early 20th Century
Measurements
L545 x W55 x H5 mm
Media/Materials description
silk (Textile), Card/Cardboard (Paper), Indeterminate (Metals - Indeterminate)
Signature/Marks
Handwritten
"E. O.Drury"
"269" Illegible cursive handwriting
"E. O.Drury"
"269" Illegible cursive handwriting
History and use
Dance cards relate to the formal social life of the middle and upper classes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A dance card is used by a woman to record the names of the gentlemen with whom she intends to dance each successive dance at a formal ball.
This particular card is believed to a debutante’s dance card and pencil.
Uploaded to the Web 27 May 2011.
A dance card is used by a woman to record the names of the gentlemen with whom she intends to dance each successive dance at a formal ball.
This particular card is believed to a debutante’s dance card and pencil.
Uploaded to the Web 27 May 2011.
Registration number
H28146
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