Mr and Mrs Ely Culbertson, American contract bridge players Size:XL: 120 x 100cm 'Old Satten Old Taffety or

'Old Satten Old Taffety or Velvet'

There is a pile of game on the floor

at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza

'The national pop-shop in Threadneedle Street'

and a hypothesis about the growth of oyster shells (fig

Mr and Mrs Ely Culbertson, American contract bridge players Size:XL: 120 x 100cm 'Old Satten Old Taffety orMr and Mrs Ely Culbertson, American contract bridge players, 1931. Ely Culbertson (1891 1955) played a prominent role in the development of contract bridge in the 1930s, when the game enjoyed a boom in popularity. A well as being one of the best players of bridge of his day, he also taught the game and wrote books and published magazines about it. He married his first wife, Josephine, herself a successful player, in 1923.