£1,250
A part pack of 51 playing-cards depicting four Popish Plots: the Spanish Armada, Dr Parry's plot, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Popish Plot of 1678. Etching on paper, backs plain, presented together with a later tooled leather case "Constantinople". A/F Some delamination to some cards, four of spades card lacking. Each approximately 90 x 55mm.
See British Museum collection item 1896,0501.913.1-52 www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1896-0501-913-1-52
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