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CNE 4251X
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French Suited German Engraved cards c1610 to 1650
with English Hand Tax Stamp
32 cards engraved cards by an unknown artist from a pack of 52 - initials IS or SI. Cards are hand coloured and reflect hunting and animal scenes from the serious to the comic - don't you just love the 10 Spades with the cat fiddling as the mice dance aground at his feet !
Commenting on the cards in the United States Playing Card Companies collection Hargrave says "Of cards with French suit signs in these German lands, there are many. The earliest one we have is a pack of 52 cards, from coper plates and coloured by hand, and most of them bear the monogram of an unknown artist. Besides the suit signs arranged in the usual manner they picture a day's hunting across the field and through the forests of early seventeenth century Germany. The Kings and valets are debonair gentlemen and the Queens gracious little ladies. No other example of these cards are known to exist." She then illustrates four of them and classifies them as "Hunting series, 1610"
Virginia Wayland states in the IPCS Journal Volume XIII, No 1 [ August 1979 ] that these cards must have been seen by John Lenthall as he followed the design in his Forest Cards [ Pack No: XXII ] often reversing the image.
Uniqueness is a word we don't often use but in addition to this decks obvious rarity it also bears an English Hand Tax Stamp of c 1712 a Red Stock in Hand Stamp which would have been applied on importation.
Condition is varied and the high definition scans of the cards reveal all. |
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CSA 5200
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c1775 Music Playing Cards with Rules for Quadrille
51 Playing Cards, plus instruction card - lacking 6 diamonds,
No information is available as to the makers name but the small court cards are really well crafted and I have scanned a few images of just the courts so you see the fine workmanship.
This is a very rare deck much scarcer than the earlier issue of Music cards 'Beggars Opera'.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF TURNED ENGLISH COURTS EVER RECORDED.
Instruction Card - QUADRILLE without pooling as played at Bath & C.
Condition is very good; the odd part loss of top layer and a couple of paper adhesions - all cards scanned to show condition.
References
F O'Donoghue 1901 Page 168
No: 78 DANCE MUSIC, c1775 each card containing the music of a contredanse with the value indicated by a miniature card in the upper left hand corner.
LADY SCHREIBER Collection 1901 Volume 1 Plate 97
Yale University - Carey Collection - English ENG 123
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CSA4310
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c1765/1800 Early small English single courts.
A complete deck of playing cards 52/52
(with large margins sometimes incorrectly called piquet sized)
Ace of spades - very decorative - hand made deck by a professional hand from 18th Century.
Courts are very similar to those in use c1765/1800. Full length, single courts, hand made so well they are difficult to differentiate between wood block.
In very good condition with no damage but cards are very slightly curved |
£750.00
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CSA 4329
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 c1789
HALL Standard Playing Cards
George III Duty Ace of Spades showing
Six Pence Added Twice – Ace No: 13 [ This is unrecorded by Berry ]
Small Size Courts & Small Ace
Bezique Deck -
Complete 32/32
Cards are in very good condition with slight foxing here and there
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£750.00
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CSA 3561
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c1800
or possibly later Fake Gibson & Gisbourne Playing Cards
Wood Block Printed - crude
wood block ace no 115 - name difficult to read - Produced presumably
to avoid duty by issuing an ace in the style of 1765-1776 (no dyes
for Aces Known for Gibson & Gisbourne until 1776) probably produced
in Belgium c 1810-1820 - Single courts 52/52 - condition excellent |
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CSA 5223
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C1806 HUNT & SON 
successors to GIBSON Standard Playing Cards
George III Duty Ace showing tax of SIX PENCE added three times.
Ace Number 116 Recut Number 3
Ace of Clubs over stamped “SUPERFINE”
Square Cornered, Single Courts, Plain Backs.
Complete deck 52 cards out of 52.
Cards are in very good condition some occasional foxing and the odd non-distracting mark.
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CSA 4429
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c1809
HUNT & SONS Standard Playing Cards
George III Duty Ace of Spades showing
Six Pence Added Twice – Ace No: 10
Small Size Courts & Small Ace
Bezique Deck -
Complete 32/32
Cards are in very good condition with the odd slight foxing mark. |
£450.00
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CSA 4439
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 1809
HUNT & SONS Standard Playing Cards
George III Duty Ace of Spades showing
One Shilling & Six Pence – Ace No: 27
Single Figure Courts
Complete 52/52
MINT -
In Original Wrapper
“Great Mogul” and Embossed Duty Stamp
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£400.00
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CSA4370
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C1810 HALL & SON Standard Playing Cards
 George III Duty Ace showing ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE
Ace Number 66 1st Recut
Ace of Clubs stamped SUPERFINE
Square cornered, Single Courts, Plain Backs.
Complete Deck 52 cards out of 52
We can’t see that the cards have ever been played with – exceptional condition.
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£425.00
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CSA5221
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 C1812 HUNT & SONS Standard Playing Cards
George III Duty Ace showing ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE
Ace Number 35 2nd Recut.
Square Cornered, Single Courts, Plain Backs
Complete Deck 52 cards out of 52
Cards have been played with but are generally clean with no bends and tears; there are the occasional surface marks.
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CSA 3810
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c 1820 English Standard Hand
Drawn & Coloured
Complete Pack on Bananna Leaf
They were believed
to have been made in Ceylon and are on either palm leaf or
banana leaf. They are mounted and housed in two books and were
previously part of a
collection by Captain H. E. Rimington Wilson of Broomhead Hall.
His collection was sold in 1971 and although it only contained
about 100 items of playing cards Sylvia Mann was totally impressed
with the quality of the
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CSA4308
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C1822 HUNT & SONS Standard Playing Cards
George III Duty Ace showing ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE
Ace Number 64 3rd Recut
Square Cornered, Single Courts, Plain Backs – small format
INCOMPLETE 50 out of 52
LACKS 4 Spades and Jack of Diamonds
Cards in played with condition – no bends, tears or damage to cards
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£225.00
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CSA4427
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 C1822 HUNT & SONS Standard Playing Cards
George III Duty Ace showing ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE
Ace Number 95 [ not recorded in Berry ]
Ace of Clubs stamped SUPERFINE
Square Cornered, Single Courts, Plain Backs.
Complete 52 out of 52 cards
Cards are in very good, crisp, condition
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£300.00
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CSB 3812
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c1823
Hall & Bancks Outer
Playing Card Wrapper
An outer wrapper for six packs of playing cards by Hall & Bancks
c18123. These are for their branded "THE GREAT MOGUL" made
at their No: 15 Piccadilly, London premises.
The wrapper is 33cm by 31cm - the central graphic measuring 10cm
by 27cm.The wrapper bears the inscription "CARD MAKERS TO HIS
MAJESTY THEIR R.H THE PRINCESS DUKE & DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER AND
PRINCE LEOPOLD"
Nice crafted central graphic pain of a Great Mogul with a border
with the four suit signs. |
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