Fortune Telling Deck, c.1818
Fortune Telling Deck by Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig c.1818.
German-suited Fortune Telling deck by Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig c.1818, 36 cards. Inscriptions in German and Polish.
These are an interesting alternative to the more common ‘Madame Lenormand’ or ‘Book of Fate’ cartomancy cards, with a different repertoire of emblemmatic images. They differ from the typical French ones, of course, in that there are no miniature playing cards inside the design, but instead the German suit symbols.
Above: Fortune Telling deck by Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig c.1818. Saxonian tax stamp (1819 - 1834) on the Seven of Bells. Printed by lithography 36 cards. Similar decks were made by Backofen in Nürnberg and Knaut in Weimar. See also: Cartomany deck by Johann Ernst Backofen►
Further References
British Museum: number 1896,0501.28►
O’Donoghue, Freeman M: Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed by Lady Charlotte Schreiber (German 19), Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1901 [digital version here]
By Klaus-Juergen Schultz
Member since February 03, 2024
From the collection of Klaus-Jürgen Schultz (https://spielkarten-sammlung.de).
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