William & Son Rubber Bridge Gift Set – Bruton Street

Description

William & Son Gift Set – Bruton Street

The William & Son Gift Set – Bruton Street Gift Set has everything you need for a good game of rubber bridge. The set contains a twin pack of regular-size bridge cards, 4 full length gold pencils and an elegant Rubber bridge score pad with William & Son branding subtly foiled on the front. The gift set comes beautifully packaged in a handmade drop-lid presentation box.

We call the bridge set ‘Mini’ because it contains just one pad of score cards. Having just one pad, the box is quite compact which is easy to store and doesn’t take up much room. This elegant set has two packs of William & Son superior quality 330gsm playing cards, featuring their old Bruton Street shop. These excellent cards have great slip, snap and handling. To read more about playing card board and what makes a pack top-quality, you can read our article Focus On: Playing Card Qualities.

Why William & Son?

As one of the world’s leading suppliers of top-quality items for the card game bridge, we are often approached to produce bespoke ranges for luxury brands. We produced a really beautiful range of twin packs, score pads, pencils and single packs of playing cards for the luxury London store owned by William Asprey and his son: Willian & Son. The playing cards are heavenly, made from the very best Premium Quality board stock that our own brand cards use. Finished with a luxury varnish for the very best slip and handing. Unwrap a pack and shuffle it, and you will discover the pleasure of using a luxury pack of cards.

We have surplus stock of all the items we supplied to William & Son, and now that the store has sadly closed, we’re offering this beautiful range at seriously knocked-down prices to clear the stock.

Bruton Street

The Bruton Street Mini Bridge Gift Set features a charming illustration of the old William & Son store front in London.

Packaging

We have surplus stock of the William & Son playing cards and scorepads, but not of the William & Son presentation boxes we supplied to the store, so this gift set is packaged in a Simon Lucas Bridge Supplies presentation box.

Rubber Bridge

Rubber bridge is played by two competing pairs of players. Three games of bridge are played and a rubber is a ‘best-of-three’ competition. Play proceeds until one pair wins 100 or more points to win that game. There is a horizontal line dividing the Rubber Bridge Score Cards which is used when scoring. The winning bid’s value (tricks that are bid and made) is scored below the line. Bonus points such as overtricks are scored above the line.

The winning pair is generally the first pair to win two games. On our Rubber Bridge Score Cards, all three games that make up a rubber are scored on one side of the score cards. This means you get a whopping 100 rubbers/300 games from just one pad!

While the basic elements of scoring are similar to Chicago or ‘four-deal’ bridge, their method of accumulation and recording differ slightly, and honours do score. We include scoring tables for both Rubber and Chicago bridge in our Contract Indicator and Scoring Aid.