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Altenburger Spiklkaetfabrik Schneider & co
Heraldic backs c1900
36/36 original box makers name 10h
REF: R126_031
Reference:
Fournier SPAIN 277
REF: F277_008
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REF: Minot-008
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REF: lyon_006
This is just the front, printed sheet, of the cards which have lost their pasteboard backing – delaminated.
There are 19 of them all 18th Century and you can see the condition of them from the photos which, in the main, is very good.
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REF: Mixed_Courts_054
This deck was produced by B P Grimaud, Paris, c1895 for guests of the Orient Express Train.
The cards shown are from an opened deck but are the same.
The cards have no indices. The Kings represents Maharajas, the Queen represent Maharanes and the Jacks musicians and guards.
cards have gorgious backgrounds.
Ref: Fournier 369, Segeth pp 32-33, Cary Collection 368
The Imperial Playing-Card Factory was founded in 1817 and it’s revenues were used to support the Foundling Hospitals of St. Petersburg and of Moscow.
The first hospital was built in Moscow in 1764 a second institution was established in St. Petersburg in 1770.
52 cards complete – Chromolithography – see condition below
Cards measure 58 mm by 89 mm
CONDITION Slightly used but several backs have paper scrape loss, AD has edge tears, JD and JC have pin holes, AS and JD are cut at bottom, KC has small edge tear, and AC, AH and 10D have stains.
Source: Russian playing card history: from the beginnings to 1917” originally published in The Playing Card, 13 (4), May 1985, pp. 97-113 and reprinted in The Playing Card, 40 (1), Jul-Sep 2011, pp. 41-57.
Peter Burnett
REF: IPCF_1865 _006
I believe this was the first Chromolithograph pack produced by Dondorf and herolded the start of some spectacular cards by Bernard Dondorf.
The cards are well worth agood look even if you have no intention of buying as the Comiques are entertaining and delightful.
This pack was printed in 1860. It was reproduced sometime in the 1870s with softer backgrounds and four adjusted designs for the King of Clubs, Queen of Hearts, Queen of Spades and the Five of Clubs – the original designed were generally regarded as slightly obscene – see the dogs raised leg on the King of Clubs.
The deck is in played with condition with surface soiling. The Ace of Hearts has suffered a cut on the left hand side [ see blown up picture ] which has been repaired but there is no mark to the back so this was perhaps a crack. All cards are without bends or damage apart from the AH mentioned.
The backs are printed with a representation of a man and girl at a casement, their faces forming aces of hearts and diamonds – in Gold and Purple.
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Full pack 32/32, Piquet Pack, of Playing Cards made in Switzerland c1810. Printed from woodblocks and stenciled coloured. French suited and made by “D V a Lausanne” shown on the Jack of Clubs.[ David Vachet “Cadet”, cardmaker in Lausanne before 1850 – our thanks to Walter Haas ].
The c1812 Tax stamp, on the Ace of Hearts, is from Canton Vaud [ CANT.DE /VAUD ] [ thanks to Peter Endebrock http://www.endebrock.de/ ] and the Jack of Hearts shows the symbol of the Vaud Canton “Liberte et Patre”
The cards have plain backs and are in excellent [ 9/10 ] condition.
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Official Portrait David Paris 1810 – By David/Mongez – Imperial Eagle Watermark.
This is the first issue of Playing Cards following those made during the Revolution, a return to the Standard French suit signs – Designed by Andrieli, Jaques, Louis David, Moneez.
The 32 card deck known as the Official Portrait pack measures 82mm x 55mm with plain backs and the paper is mater marked with the Imperial Eagle
Letterpress printed and hand stencilled colouring with a clumsiness that speaks to early post revolutionary times.
The Jack of Spades lists the publisher and designers.
The condition is clean with the occasional non-distracting small foxing mark.
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