Other suits across history include coins, bells, swords, acorns, leaves -- one German hunting-themed set, printed in Stuttgart around 1430, had suits of stags, ducks, falcons and hounds. [...] French-suited cards became standard because the combined weight of French and British imperialism wallpapered the planet with them.

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After all, if history had gone a little differently, we could have had a Motörhead song called 'Ace of Ducks'. Cheers, the British Empire. I'd better not find out you had any other downsides.

— Game Changers by Tim Clare (Page 121 - 122)