[Animal Tarock deck].

Description

Title: [Animal Tarock deck].
Creator: Göbel, Andreas Benedictus, playing card maker
Contributor: Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published / Created: [1775?]
Publication Place: Munich and Germany Munich
Publisher: ABG
Description: BEIN GER44: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Title devised by cataloger.
French suit system.
Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool].
Tax stamp on Ace of Hearts, black: G. A. FREYBERG; stamp on Ace of Clubs, black; stamps on 7 of Spades, black: G.A. FREYBERG.
CourtCards: JS with halberd: G; KH holds orb and sword; manufacturer's stamp below: BG; JH with halberd: A; KD with protion of fleur-de-lis on cloak; JD wtih Münchener Kindl and halberd: B; KC with medallion on chest: ABG; JC with halberd: G.
Trumps: Trump VIII depicts unicorn; XII, musician and dancing bear with pole.
The courts are influenced by the Paris model. See Albertina 1974, pp. 203-204, nos. 146-147.
Extent: 78 cards : 110 x 59 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: German

Genre: Specimens
Early works to 1800
Playing cards
Tax stamps (Printing)
Material: color ;, woodcut making, and stenciling (process)
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Geographic): Germany
Subject (Topic): Playing cards
Tarot (Game)
Subjects: Playing cards > Germany > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Tarot (Game) > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941 > Ownership
Cary, Mary Flagler > Ownership

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