Plainbacks B44
First English Double Ended design, Ludlow/ Wheeler

predates wider English adoption by 50 years

Ace Type A4 (c 1800) *

* "Taxation on Playing-cards in England from 1711 to 1960", John Berry, IPCS Papers No. 3, Jan 2001.
** "Woodblock and stencil", Ken Lodge and Paul Bostock, Publ. K R Lodge, 2014.

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