Archives
2011 • August
Taxation on Spanish Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Taxation on Spanish playing cards and the monopolies.
Navarra, XVII Century
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by Simon Wintle
Facsimile of 17th century Spanish-suited playing cards produced by Erregeak, Sormen S.A., Vitoria-Gasteiz (Alava), Spain, 1988.
Shakespeare Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Shakespeare Playing Cards pack published in the 1890s with original paintings are by John H. Bacon.
C.W. Faulkner
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by Simon Wintle
C. W. Faulkner & Co Ltd, London, an important publisher of games, pictorial souvenirs, children’s books, and postcards.
Cartes Catalanes
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by Simon Wintle
Cartes Catalanes are used in a small area in the Eastern Pyrenees region of Southern France.
Bourgeois Tarot
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by Simon Wintle
Bourgeois Tarot by Vereinigte Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken.
Prussian Pattern
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by Simon Wintle
Derived from Jagdkarten or Hunting cards with patriotic overtones and rural scenes as vignettes on the numeral cards, the Prussian pattern emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century.