Chas Goodall & Son "Tom Thumb" Miniature Playing Cards, Late 19th Century modern The Guardian

The Guardian

the creation of t Uruguayan twin brothesr Jesus and Javier Carbajales

I'd put something very special inside of it

and this is an especially lovely one

I am not sure the maker of this pair as I have not found their exact match

Chas Goodall & Son "Tom Thumb" Miniature Playing Cards, Late 19th Century modern The GuardianI found a matching deck of these cards in the online collection of the British Museum, so know for sure they date to the late 1800s and of course the British Museum should have them, as they are pretty special! They have all my favorite playing card attributes square corners, no indices, and a little bleeding around the red and black edges on the pips all at a miniature scale (cards measure 1 1 4" x 1 3 4".) This is a pretty rare deck from what I've