Animal Tarock deck

Description

Title: Animal Tarock deck
Creator: Perrin, Conrad Josué, playing card maker
Contributor: Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published / Created: [1770?]
Publication Place: Berlin and Germany Berlin
Publisher: Conrad Josué Perrin
Description: BEIN GER50: Imperfect: 6 of Spades wanting. 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, red
CourtCards: KS with sun face on cheest, fleurs-de-lis; JS with leaping dog; KH with orb, sword, eagle; KD: BERLIN / [fleurs-de-lis]; KC with fleurs-de-lis, Bavarian checkered pattern on shields; JC holds small device displaying Berlin bear: Conrad Josue Perrin. Kings retain their flat, two dimensional aspect while the other courts are presented in a naturalistic manner.
Trumps: Trump I depicts jester holding rack of wursts; IV, bird and cat; VI, eagle; XX, soldier with cap: FR; XXI, figure with bear and pole.
The courts are related to the Paris style; the trumps are quite similar to contemporary Bavarian packs. See D. Hoffmann and E. Kroppenstedt 1967.
Extent: 78 cards : 111 x 61 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: German

Genre: Specimens
Early works to 1800
Pictorial works
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)
Animals
Subjects: Playing cards > Germany > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Tarot (Game) > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Animals > Pictorial works
Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941 > Ownership
Cary, Mary Flagler > Ownership

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