Fortune-telling cards (Vereinigte Stralsunder Spielkarten Fabriken A.G., Altenburg, 1927, II) (Q14908)

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Q14908

Also known as

ÄLTESTE DEUTSCHE SPIELKARTE VON 1475

maker

United Stralsund Playing Card Factories

card type

fortune-telling cards

Suit system

German-suited

place of origin

Altenburg

publication date

1927

maker's mark

Provenienz-Widmung (2 Laub): Herrn Cary zum frdl. Gedenken an den Besuch in der Skatstadt, 1937, Hans Reisig

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER 302, Bd. 1, 266)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 302)

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-King (German)
• 
  Hearts-King (German)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1927), Altenburg belonged to the territory of Weimarer Republik. No playing-card tax system is recorded for this territory at this time — so there are no tax stamps to look for here.