RecordPlaying card< 1 of 1 > Back made in Edinburgh
Playing cardThis is the two of clubs, one of a pack of 53 playing cards engraved in 1691 by Walter Scott, an Edinburgh goldsmith. The cards show the royal arms and arms of the Scottish nobility who sat in Parliament. The arms of the Scottish Lords depicted on this card are Forrester, Forbes, MacKleland and Frazer (of Frazer). By the sixteenth century, the form that a pack of playing cards was to take was more or less established and many of the different packs used throughout Europe today have designs which descend from patterns used three or four hundred years ago. Record detailsTo search on related items, click any linked text below.
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