Tarot (I. Butz, Fribourg, c. 1790) (Q15887)

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Q15887

Also known as

TAROS FIN

maker

I. Butz

card type

Tarot

Suit system

Italian-suited

number of cards

78

place of origin

Fribourg

publication date

1790 (circa)

maker's mark

2C: TAROS FIN DE | I: BUTZ | IN FREIBURG B

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. SWI 12, Bd. 2, 109)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. SWI 12)

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

• 
  Cups-2 (Italian)
• 
  Swords-Queen (Italian)
• 
  Swords-Jack (Italian)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1790), Freiburg im Üechtland belonged to the territory of Alte Eidgenossenschaft. No playing-card tax system is recorded for this territory at this time — so there are no tax stamps to look for here.