Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber.

GERMAN CARDS.

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101. Bachelor cards. Imperfect pack of 31, in the same style as the
preceding, having type-printed German verses with the suits and
values expressed in words. At the top of each card is the title of
the game, "Junggesellen-Spiel." The missing card is the 7 of
bells. Backs decorated with a diagonal pattern of square spots
and dots, in black.
42 x 22 in.
(d.) Pack of 20.
102. "Das Richterspiel oder Wer list der Dieb." Complete
engraved and coloured pack for playing this game. Each suit
consists of ace, 10, two knaves and king, and the cards are
numbered 1-20. Each has a fancy figure or subject, with a
miniature playing card, showing its value, above. With sheet of
printed directions in French and German. Backs plain.
27 x 1U in.
(e.) Pack of 52.
103. Astronomical. J. P. Andreae, Nuremberg, 1719. Complete
engraved and coloured pack, with title and frontispiece cards, for
teaching astronomy. Each card has in the centre a constellation,
with description below and the suitmarks placed in a row above.
The frontispiece represents two boys standing by a celestial globe,
one looking up at the zodiac through a telescope. The title is:
"Neu Inventirtes Belehrendes untergotzendes Astronomisches
Karten Spiel... durch, Johann Philipp Andreae.. Niirnberg in
verlegung des Authoris Anno 1719." Backs plain. In old
pasteboard case.
48 x 3 in.
(f.) Fragmentary packs and odd cards.
104. Seven fragments of cards, all belonging to the suit of leaves, taken
from an old binding; similar to No. 94.
105. H. D.; 1703. Five cards (all badly injured), belonging to two packs
of the conventional type, viz.-the deuce of hearts, the upper
knave of acorns, and the knaves and king of leaves. On the
deuce of hearts are the imperial arms, with the initials H. D.,
and the king of leaves bears the date. Backs decorated with two
different diagonal patterns in black.
33 x 21 in.