Standard playing cards (Guillaume Mandrou, Paris, c. 1770) (Q14199)

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Q14199

maker

Guillme Mandrou

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

51

place of origin

Paris

publication date

1770 (circa)

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. FRA 112, Bd. 1, 149)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. FRA 112)

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

• 
  Diamonds-King (French)
• 
  Spades-Queen (French)
• 
  Clubs-Jack (French)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1770), Paris belonged to the territory of Königreich Frankreich. No playing-card tax system is recorded for this territory at this time — so there are no tax stamps to look for here.