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# 5
Archive label with pieces of a bag attached, French, around 1750.
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Collection Gejus van Diggele # 1017 |
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This month I like to show you a very early and simple secondary use of playing cards. In the old days legal documents were kept in bags. To record the content of each bag a playing card came in handy. Playing cards were used as label with hand-written information. In this case it was a law suit with three parties. ‘Contre’ means ‘against’. On its corners the card has been sewn to the bag.
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Much later somebody found the bag and removed
the playing card. It looks like he was in a hurry. Was is not legal to take the
card? Still attached to three corners are pieces of the18th-century bag, so we
can see of what material this bag was made.
By the way, it was not me who removed the card from the bag. I would have taken the complete bag, just to show it to you. |
Gejus |
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