Playing Card Deck
21370
From: Belgium | Bruges
Curatorial Section: Historic
| Object Number | 21370 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Belgian |
| Provenience | Belgium | Bruges |
| Date Made | 1700-1799 |
| Section | Historic |
| Materials | Paper |
| Description | Playing Card Deck - 76 cards; 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches, ruled in eight vertical columns, imprinted at the top alternately with the letters N and R in black and red, and perforated with four double columns of pin pricks, each line of which corresponds with one of the two letters. Said to be used as playing cards for the blind. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Lucy Wharton (Joseph) Drexel, 1898 |
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