Antique French Hand-Colored No Indices Playing Card Deck with 1853 Mark, 51 Cards modern vase and I've especially come to

and I've especially come to love little tabletop chests like this one

Color lithography on a nice wight stock

perhaps original to the making

6 1/8" long x 3" across at widest part of handle / 4 1/2" across at bristles

I have no idea what this is

Antique French Hand-Colored No Indices Playing Card Deck with 1853 Mark, 51 Cards modern vase and I've especially come toIt's been a long time since I've found a beautiful 19th century deck of cards, despite looking for them all of the time. This one is missing one card the seven of clubs but more than makes up for it I think with the unusual Jack of Hearts, which shows a unique error in coloration the red is much darker than the rest but was kept in the deck anyway! There is an 1853 Gatteaux duty mark on the Jack of Clubs but no addition duty stamp, meaning this deck