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India Game card Lacquered Historic Artisan Fine Hand Drawn & Color Painted

• SCARCITY: 8.2/10

• Court Card: 1 Single

• Condition: Bright / Clean / Very Light crazing,

• Hand painted : Oval card

• MEDIUM: Stiffened Cloth / Lacquered

• Country: India

• SIZE: 2 US INCHES

• ERA: Early 20th Century

• LUCITE HOLDER: Included

• ARTIST: Unknown

• CARD ART: Superfine / Micro

• COUNTRY: Region: India (likely Rajasthan, Bengal, or Central India)

• The word ganjifa, meaning “playing card,” appears in the fifteenth century, and may be related to the Persian word ganj, or “treasury.” The term apparently first was used for the four-suited Mamluk playing cards, and then for the eight-suited pack of Iran and India (which likely developed from use of two four-suited packs for a particular game).

CARD DETAILS: Hand-painted Indian decorative panel of a mythological archer (likely Rama) epic archer figure from Indian mythology.

Rama is traditionally shown with a bow (Kodanda)

• Often depicted with green or blue skin

• Ganjifa is a trick-taking game, like whist or bridge, but with strict rules governing what cards may be led. There are usually three players (four when there are twelve or more suits in the pack), and all of the cards are dealt in counter-clockwise fashion.

• Ganjifa historically have been made from a variety of materials ranging from ivory and tortoiseshell to papier-mâché, paper, and stiffened cloth, all painted by hand.

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