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Lot 45
PLAYING CARDS Karten Almanach [complete pack of 52 pictorial playing cards], Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1806
14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,875 inc. premium
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PLAYING CARDS
Karten Almanach [complete pack of 52 pictorial playing cards], stippled-engraved, court cards hand-coloured, red pips suits hand-coloured, 16pp. of text in original pink wrappers, together in original green card box case (rubbed but solid), 8vo (100 x 70mm.), Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1806
Footnotes
A fine complete pack, with the original accompanying text volume, of transformation cards in which the the suit-marks are incorporated into the design of the pip cards. The court cards are whole-length Greek, Persian or Biblical figures (for example Ulysses, Iphigenia, and Mordecai for hearts). The inventive picture cards include groups of children (playing cards, picking apples, sledging, in schoolroom, visiting a Christmas crib), fairies, apothecaries at work, a domestic tea party, music lesson, a huntsman and his dogs, a nightmare, a witch on a broomstick flying with geese, and travelling performers.