This picture shows all nine playing cards from the STRINGS suit of a China Chi Chi Pai playing card deck from 1890. The writing on the wrapping includes these words: HANDELSVEREENIGING HARMSEN VERWEY & DUNLOP JAVA - SUMATRA - CELEBES This text identifies a trading company working in Indonesia / the Dutch East Indies. There are 60 cards in the deck, comprising two sets of the same 30 designs. There are three suits, as follows: Coins (single coins); Strings (strings of 1000 coins); Myriads (100,000 coins). Shown in this illustration are the numbers one to nine of strings. In addition to the 1 to 9 of each suit, there are three Honour cards: White Flower, Red Flower and Old Thousand. The game played with these cards requires two full decks, 120 cards in all. The game itself resembled rummy, making up 'runs' of three cards of the same denomination (regardless of suit). Horizontal | Panoramic | Indonesia | Design | Old-fashioned
High Resolution JPEG Picture of This picture shows all nine playing cards from the STRINGS suit of a China Chi Chi Pai playing card deck from 1890. The writing on the wrapping includes these words: HANDELSVEREENIGING HARMSEN VERWEY & DUNLOP JAVA - SUMATRA - CELEBES This text identifies a trading company working in Indonesia / the Dutch East Indies. There are 60 cards in the deck, comprising two sets of the same 30 designs. There are three suits, as follows: Coins (single coins); Strings (strings of 1000 coins); Myriads (100,000 coins). Shown in this illustration are the numbers one to nine of strings. In addition to the 1 to 9 of each suit, there are three Honour cards: White Flower, Red Flower and Old Thousand. The game played with these cards requires two full decks, 120 cards in all. The game itself resembled rummy, making up 'runs' of three cards of the same denomination (regardless of suit). [502818465] stock photo
