Colonial Playing Cards Blanket grand tours

grand tours

Swing by the “little museum that could”—the Museum of the City of New York

tee showcases the entire Manhattan subway transit map printed edge to edge

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Born and raised in Queens

Colonial Playing Cards Blanket grand toursThis reproduction deck of 18thcentury playing cards includes 52 foursuited cards with plain backs, standard until the 19th century, when Thomas De La Rue & Co. introduced printed backs to discourage cardmarking. Playing cards date to the mid15th century, when importing foreign decks was often illegal, possibly because they depicted kings and queens of other nations. George Washington himself was a devoted card player, favoring games like whist during