Image: Ganjifa - Le Magasin pittoresque - vol14, 1846 p365
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Description: Images of ivory playing cards bought in a Cairo bazar by French traveller Mr. Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879), during his visit to Egypt in the period 1827-1844. He identified them as Persian by the style and quality.
Title: Ganjifa - Le Magasin pittoresque - vol14, 1846 p365
Credit: Le Magasin pittoresque, Volume 14 (Google eBook) page 365. Publisher: Aux Bureaux d'Abonnement et de Vente, France, 1846
Author: Eugène Best, Édouard Charton, Louis Fouquet
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