Kinderkarten

Description

Title: Kinderkarten
Creator: Schreiber, Eleonora, playing card maker
Contributor: Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published / Created: [1815?]
Publication Place: Prag and Czech Republic Prague
Publisher: E. S.
Description: BEIN CZE2: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Title from Daus of Acorns.
German suit system.
Type: Bohemian.
Composition of deck: 32 [D, K, O, U, 10-7].
Aces: DH: IN PRAG; DB with heraldic device; DA: KINDERKARTEN / [lion] / PRAG; DL: ES.
Pipcards: 10s indicated by "X"; vignettes with animals, humorous figures, cities.
Extent: 32 cards ; 59 x 44 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.

Genre: Specimens
Playing cards
Material: stenciling (process) and woodcut making
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Geographic): Czech Republic
Subject (Topic): Playing cards
Subjects: Playing cards > Czech Republic > Specimens
Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941 > Ownership
Cary, Mary Flagler > Ownership

Access: Public
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