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Playing cards kem with red rose pattern on the back
These playing cards kem that provides superior flexibility and strength. The cards are scuff- and break-resistant, and are designed to deliver the classic.
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China
Material & Care
Plastic
Spot clean only
A Short History of Cards
The first playing cards appeared in China, when paper started to be used in sheets and books, rather than rolls.
In 868, the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang (by E Su) says that the favorite daughter of Emperor Yizong of the Tang dynasty, Princess Tongchang, would play the game of leaves (yeh-tzâ) with members of the family of her powerful husband (Wei Baoheng).
In 1120, an official memo proposed a standardization of the popular card game of "Heavens and Nines" (T'ien-kiu) using a type of playing cards known as dotted cards (teen tsze pae). The fallacious legend that those cards were invented at that date to amuse the numerous concubines of Emperor Huizong (of the Song dynasty) was properly debunked by W.H. Wilkinson (1895) and others.
The legend that European explorers of the 13th and 14th century (starting with Marco Polo) brought playing cards from the Orient to Venice is dubious at best. So are the reports that Bertrand du Guesclin (1320-1380) discovered them in Italy "in 1350", during the Hundred Years' War.
In 1371, the Catalan word naip was used to describe a playing card (the Spanish spelling is naipe). According to Michael Dummett (1925-2011) that's the earliest extant European reference to playing-cards.
Cards became really popular in Europe around 1377, at which time they attracted the attention of religious and civil authorities (until then, dice were the sole gaming enemy). In 1377, a gaming statute was passed in Florence to regulate the "recently introduced" game of naibbe.
Playing cards were first letter-pressed by Thomas de la Rue (1793-1866) in 1832, imitating wood-block style. The British company he founded in 1821 (DeLaRue) is now the World's largest producer of security papers. Its playing-card operations were sold to John Waddington in 1969.
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