This vintage braille deck of cards for the visually impaired was made by the Thomas De la Rue & Co Ltd, in England. It features 52 cards plus two jokers and comes in a beautiful blue tin also labeled in braille.
Thomas de la Rue (24 March 1793 – 7 June 1866) was born in a small hamlet in Guernsey called Le Bourg in 1793 In 1818 he moved to London with his family and set up shop initially as a straw hat manufacturer, but he soon diversified into bookbinding and the embossing of leather, and then into paper manufacture. By around 1828 his interests had moved to playing cards and he began to put everything he had learnt into practice. De la Rue introduced letter-press printing and certain other ‘improvements’ into playing card production and was granted a patent in 1831. He produced his first playing cards in 1832 and over the years came to be recognized as the inventor of the modern English playing card.
The cards are in really nice condition, complete, no faded faces, no bends or rips, braille isn't worn down at all. 9/10
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Measures about 4" x 3" x 1 1/2"
Made in England
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