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Cavalier Playing Cards pack
GB 0096 MS1092 · 1886

Cavalier Playing Cards collection, 1886, comprises a bound volume containing a pack of cavalier playing cards, designed in the era of Charles II, forming a complete satire of the Commonwealth, published by the Clarendon Historical Society, with accompanying typescript explanation on each card by Edmund Goldschmid (1885-1886).

Unknown
Nash, Mr: letter (1761)
GB 0096 AL434 · Fonds · 1761

Letter from Mr Nash of Bath, [Somerset] to Miss Way, Jul 1761. Written in the third person on the back of a playing card (the Queen of Hearts).

Autograph, unsigned.

Nash , fl 1761 , resident of Bath