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After much digging and stumbling upon an online quiz, I have recognized the larger decks. They depict Turun Linna, a castle in Turku (which used to be the Finnish capital some hundreds of years ago). ...
Another thing I didn't think to mention before is that the larger decks have the cards numbered with aces being 1, jacks 11, queens 12 and kings unnumbered. The larger decks also feature one joker eac...
I only noticed on closer inspection that the larger cards also have the stamp, yet this doesn't mean for any that they must've been produced in Finland as also imported cards were stamped by the custo...
More pictures and some info of the cards can be found here: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/221477-old-finnish-russian-playing-cards
I'm doing a Show & Tell for the cards right now, will provide a link in a second. You're probably right about the brushes. The surface of the table is quite nice but it is unfortunately a bit "McDonal...
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