Regency Playing Cards

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Brush off your best Lady Whistledown impersonation and gather in the drawing room for some bon viveur and your favourite card games with Regency Playing Cards. Regency Playing Card s recreates the fashions and card games of the short, but influential, Regency Period of British history. These Regency Playing Cards celebrates the fashions and the games of the era, with two decks of 54 cards featuring beautifully illustrated fashion plates from the time, most notably Ackerman’s Repository – the must-have fashion magazine of the early nineteenth century. With an accompanying booklet explaining how to play six of the most popular Regency card games, game night just got a lot more fun (and sophisticated). Show more