17 or Glory, Skull and Crossbones Antique English Single Playing Card old metal caddy and other than some dryness

and other than some dryness is in very good condition still

with the first members of the family moving from New England to San Francisco during the gold rush in 1850

or maybe a piece of furniture

"be more fully known to the museum's public

dense on the front and sparser on the reverse

17 or Glory, Skull and Crossbones Antique English Single Playing Card old metal caddy and other than some drynessThe "17 or Glory" on this back of this antique British playing card refers to the 17th Lancers, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, who must at some point have been commemorated with their own deck of cards. The 17th Lancers were raised in 1759 for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, went on to fight in the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, etc. I am not certain the age of this card, but