Translucent Erotic Playing Cards

by Anonymous

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

France : Unknown publisher , c. 1840-1880 . A suggestive set of translucent erotic playing cards likely created in France in the mid-19th century. Set consists of 35 hand-colored playing cards, 32 of which are from around 1840, featuring 11 court cards 3.25 x 2.25 , and three slightly larger cards 3.5 x 2.5 possibly from the late Victorian period. Housed in a much earlier handmade late-18th century sliding box 4.5 x

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