Playing Cards.- Manus (Ant., Lyon-based publisher, 18th century) Piquet Cartes Fines, pictorial wrapper for a set of Piquet playing cards.
Playing Cards.- Manus (Ant., Lyon-based publisher, 18th century) Piquet Cartes Fines, pictorial wrapper for a set of Piquet playing cards, with an illustration of a lady leaning on an anchor, sat beneath the words 'A L'Esperance', with a sailing ship in the background, woodcut and letterpress on laid paper without watermark, sheet 250 x 245 mm. (9 7/8 x 9 3/4 in), apparently unused, but with numerous handling creases and folds, unframed, Lyon, [probably 18th century].
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Playing Cards.- Manus (Ant., Lyon-based publisher, 18th century) Piquet Cartes Fines, pictorial wrapper for a set of Piquet playing cards, with an illustration of a lady leaning on an anchor, sat beneath the words 'A L'Esperance', with a sailing ship in the background, woodcut and letterpress on laid paper without watermark, sheet 250 x 245 mm. (9 7/8 x 9 3/4 in), apparently unused, but with numerous handling creases and folds, unframed, Lyon, [probably 18th century].
