Standard playing cards (Georg Heinrich Joja, Augsburg, print block c. 1778) (Q13495)

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Q13495

maker

Joja, Georg Heinrich

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

12

place of origin

Augsburg

publication date

1778 (circa)

maker's mark

KD: In Augsburg · JC: Georg Heinrich Joja

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER block 1, Bd. 2, 240-241)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER block 1)

Source

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981)

Rights status

work in the public domain

Cards

• 
  Druckstock GER block 1 (Keller, Cary Collection)
• 
  Druckstock GER block 1 (Keller, Cary Collection)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1778), Augsburg belonged to the territory of Heiliges Römisches Reich. No playing-card tax system is recorded for this territory at this time — so there are no tax stamps to look for here.