Standard playing cards (Agen, Bordeaux, c. 1691) (Q14363)

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Q14363

maker

Agen (Bordeaux)

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

Spanish-suited

number of cards

48

place of origin

Bordeaux

publication date

1691 (circa)

maker's mark

5D: GROSSUS NONUS IMPERATORES ROMANORUM 1691; 2S: fec. agen BORDEAUX

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. FRA 181, Bd. 1, 160)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. FRA 181)

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

• 
  Coins-King (Spanish)
• 
  Coins-Jack (Spanish)
• 
  Coins-Jack (Spanish)
• 
  Coins-4 (Spanish)
• 
  Swords-Jack (Spanish)
• 
  Swords-1 (Spanish)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1691), Bordeaux 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.