Standard playing cards (Johann Mathäus Sedelmair, Augsburg, c. 1800) (Q14949)

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Q14949

maker

Johann Mathäus Sedelmaier

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

52

place of origin

Augsburg

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 34, Bd. 1, 210)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 34)

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

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1800), Augsburg belonged to the territory of Heiliges Römisches Reich. In the window 1790 to 1810, 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

View 4 tax stamps from 1790 to 1810