Standard playing cards (Eugène Boisse, Bordeaux, c. 1855) (Q14184)

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Q14184

maker

Eugène Boisse

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

52

place of origin

Bordeaux

publication date

1855 (circa)

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. FRA 1, Bd. 1, 131)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. FRA 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

• 
  Spades-King (French)
• 
  Spades-Queen (French)
• 
  Single card

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1855), Bordeaux belonged to the territory of Zweites Französisches Kaiserreich. No playing-card tax system is recorded for this territory at this time — so there are no tax stamps to look for here.