The Company Today
Since the formation of the Company in the Middle Ages when playing cards were the sole entertainment for the population, the production and use of playing cards in London has declined. Today the Company still has cardmakers as members. However the Company has many other members connected with playing cards in some way including card collectors, dealers, bridge players, magicians and other professions.
The Company has several affiliations recognising the role that the Armed Services provide. Their affiliations include the submarine HMS Turbulent, naval destroyer HMS Diamond and 19 Company; Middlesex & NW London Army Cadet Force.
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“Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)