Standard playing cards (Johann Ernst Backofen, Nuremberg, c. 1820, II) (Q14772)

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Q14772

maker

Johann Ernst Backofen

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

German-suited

number of cards

36

place of origin

Nuremberg

publication date

1820 (circa)

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER 168, Bd. 1, 238)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 168)

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

• 
  Acorns-Ace (German)
• 
  Acorns-King (German)
• 
  Leaves-Ace (German)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1820), Nürnberg belonged to the territory of Königreich Bayern. In the window 1810 to 1830, the following applied there:

Tax system	Sovereign	valid from	to
Bayerischer Kartenstempel 1807–1817 (Königskrone, 4/8 KER)	Königreich Bayern	1807	1817
Bayerischer Kartenstempel 1817–1826 (Siegelamts-Buchstaben)	Königreich Bayern	1817	1826
Bayerischer Kartenstempel 1826–1837 (Kreisnamen)	Königreich Bayern	1826	1837

View 32 tax stamps from 1810 to 1830