Danish playing cards - Tarock trumps
Two versions of trump no.15 depicting the Thorvaldsen Museum.
Below: two versions of trump no.15 depicting the Thorvaldsen Museum, completed in 1848. In the Salomon editions (right), Arabic numerals replace the Roman ones.
Images courtesy Hans Jørgen Hinrup and notes taken from his article published in The Playing-Card Vol.31, no.5, IPCS London, March-Apr 2003.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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