Animal Tarock deck

Description

Title: Animal Tarock deck
Creator: Dorff, E.F., playing card maker
Contributor: Lemmel, C. C. Witwe, playing card maker.
Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published / Created: [1790?]
Publication Place: Germany
Publisher: E.F. Dorff
Description: BEIN GER42: Imperfect: lacking C, trumps. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Title devised by cataloger.
French suit system.
Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool].
CourtCards: Abundant fleurs-de-lis on courts; KS with harp and sceptre; QS in left profile, holds flower; JS with leaping dog; KH with orb, sword, crowned eagle; KD: E.F. DORFF; KC with sceptre, lion: EFD; QD with fan; JC: C .C. LEMMELS WITWE. Kings and queens occupy the full card area; jacks are slender.
Stamp on Ace of Hearts, black: ED / A / [crown and shield].
The taxation stamp may be Saxon. See also D. Hoffmann and E. Kroppenstedt 1967, p. 51, no. 291.
Extent: 78 cards : 107 x 51 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.

Genre: Specimens
Early works to 1800
Pictorial works
Playing cards
Material: color ;, woodcut making, and stenciling (process)
Resource Type: text and still image
Subject (Geographic): Germany
Subject (Topic): Playing cards
Tarot (Game)
Animals
Subjects: Playing cards > Germany > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Tarot (Game) > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Animals > Pictorial works
Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941 > Ownership
Cary, Mary Flagler > Ownership

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