Handmade, Hand-drawn "Parlons-Francais" Playing Cards (Complete Deck, 60 Cards) dutch sampler and then a later version

and then a later version of this one in color

Plenty of rough spots as there always were

had it archivally matted

No foxing or notable aging to the paper at all

I was surprised by the thickness and weight of the board the ink blots are printed on

Handmade, Hand-drawn "Parlons-Francais" Playing Cards (Complete Deck, 60 Cards) dutch sampler and then a later versionThe existence of things like this hand drawn deck of cards made I would guess by a mother, though perhaps a French teacher, intent on teaching French vocabulary to her children makes me very happy. The game is basically rummy, where one wants to acquire all of the cards of any given set, while learning the names of fruits and vegetables and animals and games and vessels in the process! The cards are a nice weight card stock, and the drawings done in