Beautiful Antique Swedish Playing Cards, c1893, Complete 52 Card Deck antique arts and crafts vase with some aging to the

with some aging to the paper

At top is the Clustered Animal Flower "stretching out its claws" and below are a Sea Carnation and a Proboscis Polipus

I've been thinking about this piece

I have seen a very very close match (same overall design

I find it quite an elegant piece

Beautiful Antique Swedish Playing Cards, c1893, Complete 52 Card Deck antique arts and crafts vase with some aging to theI've always got my eyes peeled for beautiful antique no indices playing cards, but almost never find a complete deck that is within my reach. But here are these! They are late 19th century Swedish, specifically about 1893, produced by A. Boman in Stockholm I believe (which also made a great deck of cards for a game called Kille), with the ace of hearts showing a Stockholm stamp. They've got all the attributes I love nearly square corners, a little