Card, Membership

Speakeasy membership card for The Mayfield Club, located at 76 Eliot Street. The card is printed in purple on beige. "1253," is simply stamped in the name field, below which is printed, "is hereby extended the privileges of the club in accordance with its rules at the request of." "Nov 1 1931," is stamped in the following field. A coat of arms-style design with "The Mayfield Club," written diagonally across the shield is printed at the upper left. No date has been printed in the date field. The verso contains a bawdy poem, handwritten in pen:

The natural lust of the camel
Is greater than anyone thinks.
When the sexual impulse is on him
He endeavors to roger the Sphinx.
But the Sphinx's little depression
Gets filled with the sands of the Nile,
Which accounts for the camel's expression
And the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.

Aide de Camp to [Gen. Watson Washing. Comm. ?] of Palestine