Besançon-Tarock (Pierre Lachapelle, Straßburg, um 1740) (Q4144)

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Q4144

Also known as

Tarock (Pierre Lachapelle, Straßburg, um 1785) · TAROS FIN

maker

Pierre Lachapelle

card type

Tarot

Suit system

Italian-suited

Pattern

Tarot de Besançon

Figure type

single-figure

number of cards

78

place of origin

Strasbourg

publication date

1735-1745 (uncertain)

maker's mark

2C: TAROS FIN DE | PIERRE | LACHAPELLE | A STRASBOURG

Described in

• A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. FRA 162, Bd. 1, 157)
• Radau: Tiertarock (Munich 1989)
• Radau/Himmelheber: Spielkarten (BNM vol. 21, 1991) (cat. no. 5)

Collection

• Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. FRA 162)
• Bavarian National Museum (inv. R 8540)

Source

• A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981)
• Radau: Tiertarock (Munich 1989)

Rights status

work in the public domain

Cards

• 
  Cups-2 (Italian)
• 
  Trump III
• 
  Trump IIII

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1740), Straßburg belonged to the territory of Königreich Frankreich. No playing-card tax system is recorded for this territory at this time — so there are no tax stamps to look for here.