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Description: | Set of 30 Chinese playing cards. Narrow rectangular strips of thin card printed with various devices in red and black. There are three suits of nine cards each - 'Ben' ('coins'), 'Suo' ('strings'), and 'Wan' ('myriads') - plus three extra cards, known as 'da hong' ('big red'), 'xiao hong' ('small red'), and 'ba shu' ('eight bundle').
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1971.181 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | cardboard playing cards Family and Home ink | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-94481 | Go to resource |
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