Monday, August 28, 2017

A brief, fascinating history of playing cards.


The Morning News http://ift.tt/2vjgs2G

Diamonds, by contrast, could have represented the upper class in French decks, as paving stones used in the chancels of churches were diamond shaped, and such stones marked the graves of the aristocratic dead.

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