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Playing Cards
MISCELLANEOUS
toy
Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik
Europe: Germany, Thuringia, Altenburg
Late 20th c.
paper; plastic
overall (each card): 92 mm x 59 mm

Set of playing cards ('Piquet' pack of 32 cards, Aces and ranks 7 to King in each suit), the reverse design of each card comprising a close-up image from a painting of a man holding 15th century rivet spectacles to his face (detail from 'The Cosanguinity of St Anna', Westfalen, now in the Basilica of St Servatius, Maastrict, Netherlands). In outer clear plastic (polypropylene) box with separate lid.


2018.325

College purchase, 2018



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