52 playing cards, 1901 (c)-1903.
Pale yellow with eight vertical stripes, each textured with ridges, alternately reversed at 90 degrees to each other to form a herring bone pattern.
In centre, a printed device of the numeral 9 upon crossed lances, with ‘HODSON’S HORSE’ across the bottom of the lances in a curve.
Front: Conventional playing card design.
Ace of spades printed: ‘DUTY THREE PENCE / WHEN USED IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND / DE LA RUE [AND] CO / LONDON’
Associated with 9th Bengal Lancers.