Standard playing cards (Spielkarten A.G., Altenburg, c. 1890) (Q15082)

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Q15082

maker

Spielkarten AG vorm. Gebr. Bechstein

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

32

place of origin

Altenburg

publication date

1890 (circa)

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER 99, Bd. 1, 224)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 99)

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-8 (French)
• 
  Spades-King (French)
• 
  Spades-Jack (French)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1890), Altenburg belonged to the territory of Deutsches Kaiserreich. No playing-card tax system is recorded for this territory at this time — so there are no tax stamps to look for here.