Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — Costly Playing Cards. [ARTICLE]

Costly Playing Cards.

A pack of cards recently sold in Paris for S4OO was manufactured in the reign of Queen Anne of England, that sov-, ereign being represented by the queen' of hearts and her husband, Prince George of Denmark, by the king of the same suit. The queens of diamonds, dubs and spades were respectively Queen Anne Sophia of Denmark, the crown princess of Prussia (the wife of Frederick William I.) and Princess Anna of Russia, afterward czarina. The knaves represent prominent diplomats of the period. A fine Italian copperplate pack of cards of the fifteenth century was lately sold In London for S6OO.