Pictorial Playing Card

【 Picture Playing Card 】

Picture playing card, clear, 6.8 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, and 2.7 cm high. The old collection of the Qing Palace
This set of 52 cigarette cards was issued by W.D.&H.O. Will’s, one of the former British Imperial Tobacco companies, in the early 20th century. Compared to the 54 card set available on the modern visible market, there were no big or small trumps in the popular 52 cards at that time. Wells Corporation was the first company in the United Kingdom to issue cigarette cards, and many of its products caused a craze for collecting cigarette cards at the beginning of the last century
This set of poker cards features a series of British ladies from the Victorian era, which comprehensively presents the fashion and fashionable hair accessories of wealthy bourgeois women in England at that time. After being taught English by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874-1938) in the palace, Aixinjueluo Puyi began to be curious and fascinated by European and American culture and national customs. After marriage, he exchanged letters with Queen Wanrong in English from time to time. The set of cards hidden in the Forbidden City may be a pastime for Puyi or Wanrong to spend their leisure time in the palace