Beautiful Antique Swedish Playing Cards, c1893, Complete 52 Card Deck antique fleam Part of the pleasure of

Part of the pleasure of being out hunting for things is discovering whole genres of things one never new existed

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There may be some sort of mark on the right side near the bottom (which differs in form from the left side bottom) but I can't make it out

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including featured on the cover of Ceramics Monthly

Beautiful Antique Swedish Playing Cards, c1893, Complete 52 Card Deck antique fleam Part of the pleasure ofI've always got my eyes peeled for beautiful antique no indices playing cards, but almost never find a complete deck that is within my reach. But here are these! They are late 19th century Swedish, specifically about 1893, produced by A. Boman in Stockholm I believe (which also made a great deck of cards for a game called Kille), with the ace of hearts showing a Stockholm stamp. They've got all the attributes I love nearly square corners, a little