Indices

[Triplicate card]

After 1860, Europeans and Americans came to accept card indices, markings on the faces that declared their values. Early indices included:

The most popular indices proved to be the small markings in diagonally opposite corners, or, less frequently, in all four corners.

Triplicate card by Andrew Dougherty, New York, 1875

 

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