Secondary Use Playing Card – 18th c– Library Index 1535

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Secondary Use Playing Cards It’s the 18th and early 19th century and what do you do with an incomplete deck of playing cards, throw them away because one or more of the cards are missing from the deck? New paper and card stock is expensive, still being made by hand from old cotton cloth and rags. So instead of discarding the remaining cards you put them to a different use to maximize their paper value, and in so doing you’ve created what we now term Secondary Use Playing Cards. Many were used for note taking, some for index cards, some for receipts, others for calling cards, also for invitations, tickets, invoices, while still others are used for pay vouchers and some to even function as emergency money during a time of war. Encountered today French examples appear to be the most common, other European countries less so, British examples are scarce and American examples rarely seen. Welcome to the historical world of the Secondary Use Playing Card. All of these cards were personally collected by me over many years and I am now dispersing my collection. Secondary Use Playing Card – 18th century – Library Index Card - 1535 This is a late 18th or very early 19th century French Library Index Card done on a mid 18th century playing card. This particular card references a book in the library which was published in one volume in 15 read more
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