Anthony L. esq
a little collection of playing-cards, &c.
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
“Duzi He" 笃子胡-- A Chinese playing-card game
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Having featured the playing-cards of Nantong, I shall now describe a game played with them. My main sources are the Chinese Baidu and Wikipi...
Tuesday, 22 March 2022
On Tarot and divination decks: Part 2
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As long-term readers of my blog may know, I used to take a rather dim view about the use of playing cards as instruments of divination. Rec...
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Update 2: Hiatus, regular posting is to be ceased indefinitely
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Dear readers: This blog has been around for nearly a decade, but alas, For various personal reasons, I doubt if I am able to maintain this...
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Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Update:
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Dear readers: This account has been running for a decade now. Unfortunately for personal reasons, I had to suspend my monthly posts, and ...
Monday, 1 February 2021
A divinatory form of "Roll call patience"
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Some years ago I made assertion that there is only one form patience that has a use as a fortune telling method. https://anthonylesq.blogsp...
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Thursday, 31 December 2020
"Lad" pattern 童子
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"Lad" pattern, 童子, anon 128 cards, namely 3 suits 9 cards each suit + 3 extra 4 copies of each of the above; to which are added ...
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Yellow Fish 黄鱼
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黄鱼 = yellow Fish, 120c [30 x 4] This deck of money-suited cards comes from _______, China. It is structured much like most common money-su...
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