Tarot (Johann Matheus Backofen, Nuremberg, c. 1805, II) (Q15286)

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Q15286

maker

Johann Matthäus Backofen

Possibly identical to

Chodowiecki-Tarock (Johann Matthias Backofen?, Nürnberg, nach 1784)

card type

Tarot

Suit system

French-suited

number of cards

78

place of origin

Nuremberg

publication date

1805 (circa)

maker's mark

JC und Trumpf I: Verfertiget von Joh. Matheus Backofen in Nürnberg

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER 615, Bd. 1, 334)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 615)

Source

• A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981)
• Radau/Himmelheber: Spielkarten (BNM vol. 21, 1991)

Rights status

work in the public domain

Cards

• 
  Spades-King (Tarot)
• 
  Clubs-Jack (Tarot)
• 
  Trump I

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1805), Nürnberg belonged to the territory of Heiliges Römisches Reich. In the window 1795 to 1815, 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 1795 to 1815