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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Reproduction Object number CARCM:2008.4.1 Mark Volpert settled in Cardiff from Russia in the early 20th century, setting up a shop in Bute Street. These pencils were from the Turf Accountants, or 'bookies', that was run from the back of the shop. Many of the shops and services in the docks had to be 'open all hours', because men would be docking and leaving their ships at all times of the day. Ruth Abbott tells us: "Mark Volpert, my grandfather, took part in the Russian Revolution in 1905. He came to Cardiff, worked hard, opened his shop and the bookies, sent his brother and sister and a cousin out to America, but by then he had met my grandmother and they were settled here! In the back of the shop, in the yard, was the Turf Accountants. Grandfather started the bookies, but by the time I was a little girl my mother Doris was running it. Being a Turf Accountant wasn't illegal as you could take phone bets, but they had illegal runners on the street who took bets for the shop. That was illegal. The police were complicit as they'd pull in a runner every so often to prosecute, and mother would pay the fine." Physical description 29 pencils in multiple colours (orange, yellow, cream, blue) with an image of two racing horses and jockeys. Object name Pencil Material Wood, Graphite Dimensions Width: 175 mm Diameter: 8 mm

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CARCM:2008.4.1
Mark Volpert settled in Cardiff from Russia in the early 20th century, setting up a shop in Bute Street. These pencils were from the Turf Accountants, or 'bookies', that was run from the back of the shop. Many of the shops and services in the docks had to be 'open all hours', because men would be docking and leaving their ships at all times of the day.

Ruth Abbott tells us: "Mark Volpert, my grandfather, took part in the Russian Revolution in 1905. He came to Cardiff, worked hard, opened his shop and the bookies, sent his brother and sister and a cousin out to America, but by then he had met my grandmother and they were settled here!

In the back of the shop, in the yard, was the Turf Accountants. Grandfather started the bookies, but by the time I was a little girl my mother Doris was running it. Being a Turf Accountant wasn't illegal as you could take phone bets, but they had illegal runners on the street who took bets for the shop. That was illegal. The police were complicit as they'd pull in a runner every so often to prosecute, and mother would pay the fine."
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29 pencils in multiple colours (orange, yellow, cream, blue) with an image of two racing horses and jockeys.
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Pencil
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Wood, Graphite
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