Antique Playing Cards / pre 1950 (8)

Minchiate Toscano: original (c. 1820) - no reproduction!!!
# T0023

Cost: Euro 950.-
Cards: 92/97, 5 cards missing: 8, 9 and 10 of sword, and the 1 and cavalier of cups. (Photo copy of missing cards included!)
Format: 96 x 57 mm = 3¾" x 2¼"
Manufacturer:
Country: Italy
Year: c. 1820, tax stamp reads "Carte da giuoco di Toscana, S (Soldi) 13.4" (see first card on the scan)
Condition: >4< used; extraordinary good for the age!
Box: --
Description: Minchiate (Fiorentino, Fiorentine) is a special tarot from Florence (Firenze, Italia). A complete deck has 97 cards: 41 major arcana and 56 minor arcana. In this deck only 5 cards are missing (none of the 41 special trumps). The cards are hand coloured (water colour).

Viterbo Pattern (Rarity)
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LEONOR FINI
# N0242

Cost: for swap with Dondorf Medicee only mint condition
Cards: 52+ joker+EC, complete
Format: 91 x 59 mm
Manufacturer: Acanthe, Paris
Country: France
Year: 1949
Condition: >1< mint
Box: Original box like a book cover
Description: Very rare deck, designed by the artist Leonor Fini for her painting exibition in Paris, 1949. Golden edge.

Cartomanzia Lusso
# T0024

Cost: scambio (trade)
Cards: 78
Format: 57 x 94 mm
Manufacturer: MODIANO
Country: ITALIA
Year:
Condition: >1< nuovo
Box:
Description: modiano cartomanzia lusso 184 con bollo fiscale di lire venti tassa usata dal 7/1945 al 5/1947 con piccolo libretto

Single Faced Swiss Pattern with Tax Stamp
# C0097
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Catalan Pattern made in Switzerland
# L0142

Cost: € 39.oo
Cards: 40/40, complete
Format: 87 x 55 mm
Manufacturer: Müller and Cie
Country: Switzerland
Year: c. 1920
Condition: >1< mint
Box: original wrapper in good condition (see scan)
Description: Such cards were made by Müller and later distributed in Morocco.

Belgian-Genoese Pattern
# F0114

Cost: € 1.oo
Cards: 52/52 complete
Format: 87 x 56 mm
Manufacturer: Flli Armanino
Country: Italy
Year: 1883 - 1914 (according tax stamp on ace of heart; see scan)
Condition: >5< much used. Indices added manually, some cards full of ink
Box: no box/wrapper
Description: The best thing about this deck is the ace of heart with the tax stamp of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) and the age (pre World War I).

Single Faced Swiss Pattern
# C0101

Cost: € 95.oo
Cards: 36/36, complete
Format: 87 x 56 mm
Manufacturer: Bernina
Country: Switzerland
Year: c. 1940
Condition: >0< mint and sealed
Box: original wrapper in mint condition (still sealed)
Description: It is very difficult to find single faced Swiss suited playing cards in mint condition; even more in unopened wrapper.
Literature/Reference: Manser [2018] No. "BT 003" (p. 59)

Triest Pattern / Bild (Vindobona)
# L0018

Cost: € 48.oo
Cards: 40/40 complete
Format: 100 x 55 mm
Manufacturer: Vindobona, Fucecchio
Country: Italy; Italien; Italia
Year: Feb. 1943
Condition: >2< near mint; ungespielt
Box: a little damaged; etwas beschädigt
Description: Triestine. Two tax stamps; 1st Lire 3 in 1943, 2nd additional duty 1955. Zwei Steuerstempel; der erste 1943 zu 3 Lire, der zweite mit Steuererhöhung 1955.

Sehr altes Schweizer Quartett mit Landschaften und Sehenswürdigkeiten
# V0016

Cost: Euro 9.50
Cards: 48/48 vollständig
Format: 120 x 78 mm
Manufacturer: ? ("M" steht auf Kartenrückseiten)
Country: ?
Year: ?
Condition: >5< viel gespielt; vereinzelte kleinere Knicke, 1 Karte mit hässlichem Knick
Box: -
Description: Altes Quartett mit schwarz/weiss Bildern aus der Schweiz. Die einzelnen Familien beinhalten:
Seen: Vierwaldstättersee, Zürichsee, Genfersee, Luganersee
Wintersportplätze: St. Moritz, Wengen, Davos, Montana
Sommerkurorte: Saas-Fee, Engelberg, Lenzerheide, Flims
Gletscher: Aletschgletscher, Rhônegletscher, Morteratschgletscher, Theodulgletscher
Schlösser und Burgen: Chillon, Sion, Tarasp, Habsburg
Bergbahnen: Parsennbahn, Säntisbahn, Pilatusbahn, Firstbahn
Berge: Piz Bernina, Matterhorn, Jungfrau, Glärnisch
Kirchen: Grossmünster Zürich, St. Gallen, Lausanne, Einsiedeln
Feste: Basler Fasnacht, Sechseläuten, Narzissenfest, Chalanda Marz
Pässe: Sustenstrasse, Klausenstrasse, Gotthard, Julierpass
Städte: Bern, Zürich, Genf, Basel
Bäder: Leuk, Ragaz, Baden, Schinznach

Sehr altes Dichter Quartett mit Deutschen Dichtern, die im 18. Jh. geboren wurden
# V0017

Cost: Euro 9.50
Cards: 52/52 vollständig
Format: 100 x 65 mm
Manufacturer: Verlag von I. W. Spear & Söhne Nürnberg - Doos
Country: Deutschland
Year: ?
Condition: >5< viel gespielt, ein paar wenige Karten mit kleineren Mängeln
Box: Originalschachtel etwas abgenützt
Description: 12x deutsche Dichter plus William Shakespeare, mit biografischen Daten. Die einzelen Familien beinhalten:
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Göthe)
Friedrich von Schiller
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Adalbert von Chamisso
Ludwig Ahland
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Friedrich Rückert
Theodor Körner
Heinrich Heine
William Shakespeare

Arpak
# A0042

Cost: EUR 5.oo
Cards: 52+1/52+1, complete
Format: 89 x 60 mm
Manufacturer: Arpac Liverpool
Country: UK
Year: c. 1930
Condition: >5< much used
Box: original box damaged
Description: Letterpress, black bacground. Each suit in a different colour: spade = yellow, heart = red, diamond = white, club = green. Interesting Joker included

Saxon Pattern
# G0052

Cost: Euro 12.50
Cards: 32/32 complete
Format: 106 x 57 mm
Manufacturer: ASS, Vereinigte Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken A.G.
Country: Germany
Year: 1936/1939 (tax stamp no. 90, Deutsches Reich)
Condition: >4< used
Box: no box
Description:

Qartett "Berühmte Gemälde alter Meister" Nr. 5053
# V0020

Cost: € 20
Cards: 48
Format: 120 x 70 mm
Manufacturer: Jos.Scholz, Mainz
Country: Deutschland
Year: ca. 1910
Condition: >4< gespielt
Box: beschabt und mit Tesafilm beklebt
Description: Auf allen Karten schwarz-weiß Fotografien von berühmten Gemälden alter Meister: Dürer, Holbein d.J., Murillo, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Tizian, Raffael, da Vinci, Hals d.Ä., van Dyck, Rubens, Velasquez

Old Swiss Pattern (Double Ended)
# C0105

Cost: Euro 25.oo
Cards: 36/36, complete
Format: 87 x 55 mm
Manufacturer: J. Müller & Cie
Country: Switzerland
Year: c. 1945
Condition: >1< mint (in unopened wrapper)
Box: Wrapper never opened (as good as sealed)
Description: Hard to find old Jass cards. Very interesting, because the original wrapper is included and has no wrikles!
Literature/Reference: Manser [2018] No. "MU 024" (p. 28)

Single Faced Swiss Pattern in Original Wrapper
# C0113

Cost: € 125.oo
Cards: 36/36, complete
Format: 86 x 55 mm
Manufacturer: J. Müller & Cie
Country: Switzerland
Year: according Scotoni c. 1950; according Manser 1930+
Condition: >1< mint (in unopened wrapper)
Box: Wrapper never opened (as good as sealed)
Description: Even though this version is younger than "Manser MU 013", it is much rarer, because as time went by, the double ended decks replaced these single faced ones. Very hard to find in this condition with still unopened wrapper. The scan showing the cards is taken from an identical deck.
Literature/Reference: Manser [2018] No. "MU 014" (p. 25)

Kunst-Quartett Alte Meister, von der Hoch-Renaissance bis zu Ende des 18ten Jhahrhunderts
# V0048

Cost: € 5.oo
Cards: 60/?, according included leaflet 60 cards and 15 families
Format: 116 x 76 mm
Manufacturer: Otto Maier, Ravensburg
Country: Germany
Year: pre 1945
Condition: >3< skightly used (wenig gespielt)
Box: see photo
Description: Gemäßss beiliegendem Faltblatt bestehend aus 60 Karten, aufgeteilt in 15 Künster. Effektiv sind es 60 Karten, aber nur 14 Künster zu je 4 Bilder. Bei 2 weiteren Künstern hat es jeweils nur zwei Karten. Wahrscheinlich wurde dieses Spiel schon fehlerhaft hergestellt und so verkauft.
Cards in Engish, German and French.

Catalan Pattern - Katalanisches Bild (INCA)
# L0014

Cost: € 39.oo
Cards: 40/40 complete
Format: 97 x 59
Manufacturer: Naipes INCA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Country: Argentinien; Argentina
Year: ca. 1950 ?
Condition:
Condition: >0< mint and sealed; neu und versiegelt
Box: with wrapper; mit Umschlag
Description: With Agrentine tax stamp on cup 4 (see scan), additionally tax seal stamp on wrapper unbrocken; mit argentinischem Steuerstempel auf Kelch 4, zusätzlich Steuermarke auf Verpackung asl Siegel ungebrochen

Grenzbesetzung 1914/1915
# C0118

Cost: Euro 245.oo
Cards: 36/36, complete, vollständig
Format: 86 x 55 mm
Manufacturer: E. Funke & Cie
Country: Switzerland
Year: 1915
Condition: >3< wenig gespielt / slightly used
Box: nein / no
Description: Seltene Militärspielkarten aus der Schweiz. Die 4 Farbzeichen wiederspiegeln die Waffengattungen Kavallerie, Artillerie, Infanterie und Genie; die Figurenkarten Hauptmann, Oberleutnant und Korporal.
Rare military playing cards from WWI. Ranks are captain, (first) lieutenant and corporal. Suits are artillery, infantry, cavalry and logistics.
Literature/Reference: Manser [2018] No. "JSB 007" (p. 117)

Ansbach Pattern (hard to find), Luxery Version
# G0103

Cost: € 95.00
Cards: 36/36, complete, control slip included (see photo)
Format: 56 x 101 mm
Manufacturer: F. X. Schmid, München
Country: Germany
Year: c. 1950
Condition: >1< mint
Box: original box in good condition (see photo)
Description: Obsolete German Pattern. A special collector's item!

Ansbach Pattern (hard to find)
# G0104
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