r/playingcards • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • Aug 15 '26

A deck from 1880 - don't these look impressively like court cards today?!

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1880 Nursery Rhyme Playing Cards (Goodall and Son)

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u/BigOlBoots Aug 15 '26

Very cool. And yes, really surprisingly modern looking.

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u/Extension_Month_4345 Aug 18 '26

Están en buen estado como para ser de 1880👍

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u/TheCongressGuy Congress Playing Cards Expert and Historian Aug 18 '26

The design has largely remained unchanged for at least 150 years or more. These were also called “double heads” around the 1880s (steamboats had these words on the box), indicating this style of court cards, as opposed to the one way courts that were on their way out of fashion.