Playing Cards with Hidden Maps

This object has been adopted by:

  • Gavin Crompton
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Tier: Standard
Price: £25
Location: London
Accession Number: 72/S/438

Object details

If Escape Rooms and cartography are your passions then this is the adoption for you. Used by RAF prisoners of war in Germany during the Second World War, playing cards were often used to smuggle maps into prison camps.

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