Antique French Hand-Colored No Indices Playing Card Deck with 1853 Mark, 51 Cards modern vase 6 1/8" long x 3"

6 1/8" long x 3" across at widest part of handle / 4 1/2" across at bristles

and I've especially come to love little tabletop chests like this one

Some wear and paint loss as evident

with the raffia coiling around the edge of the lid and woven detail at the very top

and done on a thick wood panel

Antique French Hand-Colored No Indices Playing Card Deck with 1853 Mark, 51 Cards modern vase 6 1/8" long x 3"It's been a long time since I've found a beautiful 19th century deck of cards, despite looking for them all of the time. This one is missing one card the seven of clubs but more than makes up for it I think with the unusual Jack of Hearts, which shows a unique error in coloration the red is much darker than the rest but was kept in the deck anyway! There is an 1853 Gatteaux duty mark on the Jack of Clubs but no addition duty stamp, meaning this deck