Blanchard
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24: The Fournier Museum Catalogue: Comments and Corrections
The Fournier catalogue is a very useful reference book, full of pictures of cards from all over the world, but especially Europe. Unfortunately, there are quite a few mistakes and unlikely assumptions in it.

40: More on Design Copies and Fakes
The issue of design copies needs further consideration and when does a copy become a fake?

Blanchard, c.1770
The style of these cards is descended from the earlier seventeenth century cards of makers such as Hewson.



United Kingdom
Playing cards first arrived in England during the 15th century, but none have survived from such an early date.