Beautiful Antique Swedish Playing Cards, c1893, Complete 52 Card Deck 19th century hand-drawn map and a split in the

and a split in the wood down the right side

and without a lot of fuss it manages to completely transport me at least to a hushed redwood forest

with a wooden ring for standing it up to display

This charming 1957 black ink on paper drawing by James Frederic Bone (1929-2015) exemplifies the sort of playfulness and inventiveness that ran throughout his work

Beautiful Antique Swedish Playing Cards, c1893, Complete 52 Card Deck 19th century hand-drawn map and a split in theI'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