Rowley & Co. Monarchs of Europe Playing Cards. London, ca. 1765. 51/52 (missing King of Clovers). Cards are soiled but no bends or tears. 8d badly soiled. This was the first non-standard design on a standard pack of playing cards of the United Kingdom. Half-length courts within oval frames, representing kings and queens with court body-guards as Jacks. The suit signs comprising a red chalice with a heart in the chalice, a black pike head, an orange topaz cut in a diamond shape, and a green clover leaf. The court cards correspond to England, France, Spain and Portugal. The Aces of chalices, topazes, and clover are in oval cartouches decorated with a miter, crozier and croos, a winged hat, caduseus and trident, a wreath and farm tools.