Standard playing cards (Johann Gottfried Backofen, Nuremberg, c. 1810) (Q14844)

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Q14844

Also known as

FEINE KARTEN

maker

Johann Gottfried Backofen

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

40

place of origin

Nuremberg

publication date

1810 (circa)

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER 24, Bd. 1, 208)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 24)

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

• 
  Hearts-Jack (French)
• 
  Diamonds-Queen (French)
• 
  Diamonds-Jack (French)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1810), Nürnberg belonged to the territory of Königreich Bayern. In the window 1800 to 1820, the following applied there:

Tax system	Sovereign	valid from	to
Bayerischer Kartenstempel 1805–1807 (dreigeteilter Schild, 4/8 Kreuzer)	Königreich Bayern	1805	1807
Bayerischer Kartenstempel 1807–1817 (Königskrone, 4/8 KER)	Königreich Bayern	1807	1817
Bayerischer Kartenstempel 1817–1826 (Siegelamts-Buchstaben)	Königreich Bayern	1817	1826

View 20 tax stamps from 1800 to 1820