Playing cards from 1830s appear at Suffolk sale

Issued by ‘Hunt & Sons, Card Makers to His Majesty’, a ‘Great Mogul’ deck of playing cards of c.1830, the labels that seal the packaging still unbroken after all those years, featured in a recent Suffolk sale.

In the small book section of a June 14-16 sale held by Lacy Scott & Knight (20% buyer’s premiu…

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