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Les Jeux de Jeunes Garcons
 

'Les Jeux de Jeunes Garcons' with illustrations by Xavier Le Prince (otherwise known as Xavier Leprince) was published in Paris in 1822. It contains an illustration showing a boy playing with Capuchins and mentions using folded playing cards to weight / decorate the tail of a kite. Information from Juan Gimeno.

A full copy of the work can be accessed online here.

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Playing Card Monks / Capuchins de Cartes

The accompanying text reads 'The cards offer children amusements of more than one kind; they make castles, boxes, chains, little cutouts they call capuchins; they place these so that if one drops, all the others fall in a row.'

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Kite Bows

The accompanying text reads 'At the bottom of the kite hangs a long tail made from a string to which are attached, from distance to distance, folded and flattened cards or half cards; the tail terminates in a kind of cut paper tassel.'

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