The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloister Museum north of manhattan
has quite an interesting collection of playing cards.  It has been a long
time since I've been up there, but if I recall correctly, some date as far
back as the 11th c.




At 01:43 PM 11/17/95 GMT, you wrote:
>I am compiling a list of museums with interesting holdings of
>playing-cards.  This information is being made available to
>members of the International Playing-Card Society and to anyone
>wishing to pick up a copy of the file from my majordomo site.
>There are currently 21 establishments listed, mainly sited in
>Europe.  I'd be very pleased to hear from anyone with new entries,
>additional information and corrections and suggestions for
>improvements.  Note that for this purpose, the term playing-card
>does not include games cards (such as Old Maid and Black Peter),
>although some may be found in among the collections listed.
>
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>When time permits I'll convert the list to HTML and add it to
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