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8:18am on Tuesday, 12th November, 2024:
Anecdote
I bought some more antique playing cards.
These are Bezique decks, which I don't normally purchase because there are only 32 cards in each pack. However, I put in bids for maybe a third of a price of a regular pack, and won them both. Neither have index numbers and neither is turned (that is, for some of the cards, such as the Queen of Spades, the suit indicator is on the right rather than the left).
The top one is a Reynolds deck from about 1863. It's fairly standard, and goes nicely with my other Reynolds decks.
The bottom one is a Woolley deck. I didn't know Woolley made Bezique decks, but apparently they did. This looks to be the same pattern as the full decks they made between 1865 and 1875 (unturned, no indeces, no colour for the face cards' faces), so is probabbly from the same era. The Ace of Spades looks to have some water damage, but other than that it's in better condition than the Reynolds deck.
I don't think I have any other Woolley packsso this one will have to go nicely with itself instead.
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