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tarot card / Lowry, Royal Artillery, 1840

Pack of playing cards, with suits of cups, coins, clubs and swords. Spanish. First half of 19th century. Taken by gunner Lawrence Lowry of the Royal Artillery, about 1840, from a pirate ship captured by British war vessel; and brought into Port Royal, Jamaica, where he was stationed from 1839.

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