REYNOLDS & Sons. Standard playing cards with embossed pips for the use of the blind. Circa 1835. One way unturned Court cards, with one way pips, and no index 52 cards in Very Good + condition, no tears or creases. The earliest known example of a standard pack adapted for use by the blind. The pips are made of compressed paper and stuck on, so as to project. They have also been added to the courts: Kings, to top right, Queens to the top left and Jacks bottom centre, to enable them to be differentiated by touch. The backs can be detected by touch because of the impressed pattern in a white medium. Each card approx 93 mm x 64 mm. Joseph Reynolds had been producing playing cards in the traditional method since c.1809 but new technologies facilitated a move away from woodblock printing. Their printing works was at 29 & 30 Vere Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. The firm was active from approximately 1809 to 1885, when it was acquired by Charles Goodall & Son. We have heard of only one other set of embossed cards by Reynolds. We understand that there is an entry in the catalogue for The Great Exhibition of 1851 for these cards, but we have not been able to locate it.