Standard playing cards (Johann Peter Bürgers, Cologne, c. 1920) (Q15059)

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Q15059

maker

Johann Peter Bürgers

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

32

place of origin

Cologne

publication date

1920 (circa)

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER 77, Bd. 1, 219)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 77)

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-Ace (French)
• 
  Spades-King (French)
• 
  Q20648

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1920), Köln 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.