Owen Jones: his work and his legacy - Part One
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By Ken Lodge
United Kingdom • Member since May 14, 2012
I'm Ken Lodge and have been collecting playing cards since I was about eighteen months old (1945). I am also a trained academic, so I can observe and analyze reasonably well. I've applied these analytical techniques over a long period of time to the study of playing cards and have managed to assemble a large amount of information about them, especially those of the standard English pattern. About Ken Lodge →
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Alerysiej Mak
03 September 2024, 01:38Number 166 ("Persian design?") is a modified design from a Hookah (Indian Collection: Works in Metal, The Great Exhibition, 1851). You can find it on plate XLIX number 15, page 2 of Indian Ornaments in Grammar of Ornament. "The ornaments on Plate XLIX. are chiefly taken from Hookhas, of which there was an immense
variety exhibited in 1851 [...]" (O. Jones).
Alerysiej Mak
03 September 2024, 01:41I would also like to thank you for the work You have put into this document. I am writing my thesis on card back designs by Owen Jones and I can analyze his work due to Your diligence.