BEIN GER3S: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Daus of Hearts., German suit system., Composition of deck: 36 (D, K, O, U, 10-6)., Aces: DH: REVIVISCERECVPIVNT; DB, loving couple discovered by third person; DA: LEIPZIG / [lion and heraldic device]; DL, initials on shield., CourtCards: KH, B, L seated. KA, black, stands; UB holds bird in right hand; OL holds suit sign., Pipcards and Jokers: 10s indicated by "X"; vignettes., and Saxon type. Four witty lines of verse comment on the value of each card.
BEIN ENG82: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. Imperfect: lacking Ace of Clubs; King of Spades, King of Clubs; 9 and 3 of Spades; 7, 6, and 4 of Hearts; 10, 8, and 3 of Diamonds; 10 of Clubs. The cards were cut unevenly., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: Indicated by "I"., CourtCards: K: King; Q: Queen; J: Knave., and Pip cards: Numbered X-II.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Rye House Plot, 1683, Great Britain, Politics and Government, and History
Buckland, James, 1710 or 1711-1790, playing card maker
Published / Created:
Jany. 1816.
Call Number:
ENG54
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
White horse
Description:
BEIN ENG54: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. Coloration by hand., Title from Schimmell or White horse card., No suit system., Type: Game., Composition of deck: 5 [Inn, Hammer, Schimmell or White horse, Bell, Hammer & Bell]., and All cards: Publish'd by J. Buckland, London. Schimmel card: January, 1816.
BEIN GERsheet243: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Uncut sheet of 8 playing cards (7, 4-2H; 8, 6, 4, 3B)., German suit system., and 3H: 1558; 2H, crossed hammers on shield; 6B, scroll-like ornament.
BEIN ITAsheet3S: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Italian suit system., Uncut sheet of 20 playing cards (Wheel of Fortune, Chariot, Love, Fortitude, Popess, Emperor, Empress, Pope (?), Sun, Moon, Star, Bagatto, Fool (?), Tower, Devil, Temperance; 9 or 8B, 7B)., and Batons from separate sheet and mounted to appear as part of this sheet. All cards truncated except Popess, Emperor, Empress, Moon, Star, and Bagatto. Ancestral to marseille tarot.
BEIN AUSsheet63: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., German suit system., Original design., One sheet with 16 cards: 10-7., and Pipcards and Jokers: 7 of Acorns: Lud. Joseph Jaeger / in Pressburg.
BEIN AUS200: Extra trump VI was altered to make the trump IV. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Keller., French suit system., Type: Tarock., Composition of deck: 54 [AH, AD; K, Q, C, J; 10-7S; 4-2H; 4-2D; 10-7C; trumps I-XXI, Fool]., Stamp on Ace of Hearts, black: G. Fischer / Prossnitz / 1823., King of Spades with sceptre; JC: Fabricirt / von / GOTTFRIED / FISCHER // Bürgerlicher / Karten - Mahler / in Prossnitz in / Mähren., Trumps: Double figure (I, Fool) or variable double figure (II-XXI) trumps; II: Katzbach / d. 26t. Aug. / 1813; III: Blücher / Den-ewicz / d. 6t Sept. 1813; V: Belle Alliance / 18 Juni 1815 / La Rothiere / 1 Febr. 1814; VI: Wartenburg / d. 3tn October 1813 // Wieder erkämpft [Brandenburg Gate]; VII: G. Görschen / c. 2 May 1813; VIII: Leipzig / v. 16. Bis 19. Octbr / 1813; IX: Rhein / Uebergang / d. 1t Jän 1814; X: PARIS / d. 7t Juli 1815; XI: Culm / d. 30tn Aug. 1813; XIII: Fried. Wilhelm / Herzog / von / Braunschweig / den 16tn July / 1815; XIV: G.F. / Tarock / Karten // Paris / d. 31t Merz / 1814; XVI: Für / Deutsch / Land; XVII: Es lebe Deutschland; XIX: Grosbeeren / d. 22. 23 Aug. / 1813 // Montmartre / 30t März / 1814; XX: Waterloo / d. 18t Juni / 1815; XXI: Eintracht siegte [heraldic devices of the Allies] // Friede; Fool: Excusee., and Black tax stamp on Ace of Hearts: B / 14K / Karten / 1823.
BEIN FRA159 1: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., BEIN FRA159 2: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from slip case label., Latin/Italian suit system., Type: Marseille tarot., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., Color lithography, surface polished., Slip case: B. P. GRIMAUD / TARTO ITALIEN / 78 CARTES / CHARTIER, MARTEAU & BOUDIN / 54, rue de Lancry, 54. / PARIS., Courts: B. P. GRIMAUD-PARIS., Trumps: B.P. GRIMAUD-PARIS; II: JUNON; V: JUPITER; VII: V.T., Pips and Jokers: 4 of Coins, fleurs-de-lis; 2 of Coins: 1748 / ARNOULT / 1748; 2 of Cups, fleurs-de-lis., and Tax stamp on Ace of Coins, blue: REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / [head in profile] / DECRET / DU 12 AVRIL 1890.
Caption title., Printed in two columns with a woodcut at the head of each column, and playing cards surrounding text., Text begins: The serjeant commanded his party to the church, and when the parson had ended his prayer, he took his text; and all of them that had a Bible pulled it out to find the text, but this soldier had neither Bible, almanack, nor common prayer book, but he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a pack of cards, and spread them before him as he sat, and while the parson was preaching he first kept looking at one card and then at another., Undated; James Catnach was active at this address from 1813 until his retirement in 1838; see Hindley, C. The history of the Catnach Press ..., 1886. Queen Victoria is mentioned in the text: "And also of Queen Victoria, to pray for her.", so the printing date must be after her accession in 1837., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Catnach, printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-Court, 7 Dials
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Middleton, Richard, Private in the 66th Regiment of Foot.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Prayer, Christianity, Soldiers, Religious life, Almanacs, Playing cards, Religious services, Soliders, and British