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ROYAL CARD GAME - FAN Royal Connections Fan. A New Game at Cards, Invented by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and Duchess of York, which is played in the first circles of fashion', Stokes, Scott & Croskey, 1794 image 1
ROYAL CARD GAME - FAN Royal Connections Fan. A New Game at Cards, Invented by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and Duchess of York, which is played in the first circles of fashion', Stokes, Scott & Croskey, 1794 image 2
Lot 28

ROYAL CARD GAME - FAN
Royal Connections Fan. A New Game at Cards, 1794

Ending from 19 November 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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ROYAL CARD GAME - FAN

Royal Connections Fan. A New Game at Cards, Invented by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and Duchess of York, which is played in the first circles of fashion', paper fan printed in blue, with decorative border design and decorations incorporating the card suits (hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades) surrounding 5 panels of text (title and instructions), mounted à l'anglaise, plain boxwood guards and sticks, metal and small bone pin, a few short tears or splits, 2 vertical folds with neat stitched repair, guardstick 255mm., Stokes, Scott & Croskey, 1794

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RARE 'ROYAL CONNECTIONS' FAN, with text describing the rules of a game of cards invented by the Princesses Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840) and Frederica, Duchess of York & Albany (1767-1820). It was published by Stokes, Scott & Croskey, who published several fans between 1793 and 1798 but whose firm was foremost centred on silk weaving. The design "is typical of English printed leaves of this period... Card-playing was a popular pastime for the royal ladies" (Royal Trust Collection, website, describing/illustrating a variant issue of the fan printed in brown, with different arms).

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