Standard playing cards (Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig, c. 1800) (Q14905)

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Q14905

Also known as

CARTES FINES DE BRUXELLES

maker

Industriecomptoir Leipzig

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

52

place of origin

Leipzig

publication date

1800 (circa)

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER 30, Bd. 1, 209)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 30)

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

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1800), Leipzig belonged to the territory of Heiliges Römisches Reich. In the window 1790 to 1810, the following applied there:

Tax system	Sovereign	valid from	to
Sächsische General-Accise auf Spielkarten (Akzisestempel, ca. 1717–ca. 1815)	Königreich Sachsen	1717	1815
Sächsischer Kartenstempel 1806–1819 (Königskrone, IMPOST)	Königreich Sachsen	1806	1819

View 7 tax stamps from 1790 to 1810