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1901.47.1.21

Gaming card. With an image which depicts a red scroll with black vertical curved shapes with yellow petal shapes at the tips in the background. The card is rectangular and made from paper, the back of the card is dark red with an image glued to the front. The card is one of forty-nine red cards in a game set. [AB [OPS Move] 21/7/2016]


1901.47.1.21

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Collection type
Object
Description
Gaming card. With an image which depicts a red scroll with black vertical curved shapes with yellow petal shapes at the tips in the background. The card is rectangular and made from paper, the back of the card is dark red with an image glued to the front. The card is one of forty-nine red cards in a game set. [AB [OPS Move] 21/7/2016]
Long description
For the complete set of red game cards please see, 1901.47.1 .15 - .62 and 1901.47.1 .224. [AB [OPS Move] 21/7/2016] Please note that this object is one of a set of two-hundred and twenty-three objects that form the box, cards, counters and accessories of a Japanese game. [AB [OPS Move] 21/7/2016]
Geographical reference
Cultural groups
Japanese
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Cuthbert Edgar Peek
PRM source Augusta Louisa Peek
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1901
Date collected
By 1901
Acquisition information
Donated: 1901
Materials and processes
Material Paper Plant, Process Glued
Dimensions
Height: max 0.5 mm, Width: max 54 mm, Length: max 35 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1901.47.1.21
Associated publications
Please note that the following offprint was found in one of the drawers containing card games. It is unclear what, if any, object this was originally associated with, so I have put it in a folder in the RDF in 1917.53 which is the collection that most of the card games were from. King Van Rensselaer, J. "Playing Cards from Japan" Proceedings National Museum XIII, No. 836, p. 381 - 382 [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/2/2005]

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