English playing cards
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
circa 1830
English playing cards. Imperial deck, Thomas Creswick, circa 1830, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (French suits), Old Frizzle ace of spades, single figure courts representing historical rulers of 4 nations: France, Turkey, England and Spain, dust-soiled and browned, few minor spots or marks, 7 & 8 of spades spotted, versos plain white, each card 92 x 64 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cm QTY: (1) NOTE: Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis, previously from the collection of Ragnor Larusson.
Berry, The Waddington Playing-Card Collection, [W284]; British Museum 1896,0501.964 (Schreiber Eng 3); Cartorama 53 #266; Fournier II, British 134.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
Counts describe this entry’s documentation, not authenticity, rarity or completeness. Photographs may show one specimen; check each caption and licence.
Physical characteristics
- Material (listing wording)
- stencil coloured woodcut playing cards
- Dimensions or weight (listing wording)
- each card 92 x 64 mm
Identification
- Source note
- Auction-house description published on Invaluable. Attribution and measurements are the auction house’s statements about the photographed example; independent type authentication remains research required.
- Listing object ID
- 185164583
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Independent confirmation of type attribution and auction-house statements remains research required.