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- Title
The playing card trade in early modern England.
- Authors
Tosney, Nicholas
- Abstract
By the sixteen-eighties over one million packs of playing cards were being produced every year. This article examines the huge growth of the playing card trade during the seventeenth century and the process by which cards came to occupy a significant place in the history of English central government revenue generation. Particular attention is paid to the imposition of stamp duty on cards from 1711 and resulting cases of fraud; consideration is also given to the place of playing cards in wider histories of consumption. The article concludes with a discussion about the relationship between gaming and the playing card trade.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; PLAYING cards; CARD game equipment; STAMP duties; TAXATION; GAMING equipment; GAMBLING industry; GOVERNMENT policy; LAW
- Publication
Historical Research, 2011, Vol 84, Issue 226, p637
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2281.2011.00573.x