Print, playing-card (BM 1982,U.4600.1-52 13)

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Print, playing-card (BM 1982,U.4600.1-52 13)

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Complete transformation pack of 52 mounted playing-cards, plus a duplicate knave of hearts, pasted (at the British Museum) into a book with seventeen pages containing three cards, and two pages each containing a single card. The court cards are full-lenth figures strongly coloured by chromolithography, while the figures on the pip cards are printed in brown outline with the suit-marks hand-coloured. The suit-marks are incorporated into the design of the pip cards.

Chromolithograph with hand-coloured suit-marks on the pip cards
Backs printed rose (according to Willshire)

1850-1875

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1875
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British Museum
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