Standard playing cards (Ariodante Mengotti, Trieste, c. 1885, II) (Q13759)

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Q13759

maker

Ariodante Mengotti

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

Italian-suited

number of cards

36

place of origin

Trieste

publication date

1885 (circa)

maker's mark

FABRICA MENGOTTI · Osserva di noi tre qual sorte ria

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. AUS 97, Bd. 1, 27)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. AUS 97)

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

• 
  Batons-1 (Italian)
• 
  Single card

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1885), Triest belonged to the territory of Österreich-Ungarn. In the window 1875 to 1895, the following applied there:

Tax system	Sovereign	valid from	to
Verschlussmarken-System 1882–1899 (Kreuzer)	Österreich-Ungarn	1882	1899
Österr. Kartenstempel 1877–1881 (K.K.KARTENSTEMPEL)	Österreich-Ungarn	1877	1881
Österr.-Ungar. Adler-Stempel 1882–1899	Österreich-Ungarn	1882	1899

View 6 tax stamps from 1875 to 1895