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    • Author/Creator:Backofen, Johann Ernst, 1770-1844, playing card maker.
    • Title:[Fortune telling cards with German suits].
    • Publication:In Nürnberg : Joh. Ernst Backofen, S. No. 760, [approximately 1830?]
    • Physical Description:36 cards : color ; 94 x 53 mm

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    • Medium:engraving
      stenciling (process)
    • Local Notes:BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 595: Imperfect: Top portion of enclosing only. German tax stamp on Daus of Hearts. From the Fisher Collection of Playing Cards.
    • Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
      German suit system.
      Composition of deck: 36 (D, K, O, U, 10-6).
      10s indicated by "X".
      Each card with an allegorical illustration and a keyword caption in German and French.
      "J. Wolf sc."--7 of Acorns.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Partial contents:DA: Unglück. / Le malheur. -- DB: Glück. / La fortune. -- DL: Hoffnung. / L'espérance. -- DH: Freude. / La joie.
    • References:O'Donoghue, F.M. Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber, German 32
    • Subjects:Divination cards--Germany--Specimens.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Fisher, Margaret Sargent--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Fortune telling cards.
      Tax stamps.
      Engravings.
    • Also listed under:Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, engraver.
      Fisher Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
      Germany--Nuremberg.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16368443