Tarot (Alphonse Favre, Fribourg, 1813) (Q15889)

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Q15889

maker

Alphonse Faure

card type

Tarot

Suit system

Italian-suited

number of cards

78

place of origin

Fribourg

publication date

1813

maker's mark

2D: ALPHONSE FAVRE CARTIER A FRIBOURG EN SUISSE · 3D: 1813

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. SWI 14, Bd. 2, 109)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. SWI 14)

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-King (Italian)
• 
  Trump XIX
• 
  Trump XX

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1813), Freiburg im Üechtland belonged to the territory of Schweiz (Mediation/Restauration) 1803–1848. No playing-card tax system is recorded for this territory at this time — so there are no tax stamps to look for here.