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Encyclopedia ID 829

Tombola

Illustration pattern only. No free-licence photograph yet: can you suggest one?

Players mark numbers on cards as they are drawn from a bag, racing to complete a line or the full card, run at parish and club events.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Italy, Malta.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Age of Contact and Craft (about 1500 to 1800), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Mediterranean.

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