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

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CATALOGUE OF CARDS.

326. Place of issue uncertain. A. Fescher; 18th century. Comnplete pack, with printed sheet of instructions. On one of the
cards of houses is "Dise Karten ist," and on the other "Zu
Finden Bey Antoni Fescher Kar. Ma." Backs decorated with
a pattern of squares enclosing crescents in blue. In cardboard
case lettered "16 Gemeinkarten und 6 Spielmarken um Thiergartenspiel."
34 x 21 in. [S. Vol. II, pl. 153 and 154.]
(b.) Fortune-telling.
327. Berlin. Beuckert & Radetzki. Mile. Lenormand's cards;
modern. Complete pack of 36, uncoloured; with printed sheet
of instructions. Each piece has two emblematical subjects and a
border containing cabalistic signs. Backs plain. In pasteboard
case, on which is a kneeling figure of Mlle. Lenormand with
the title " Mile. Lenormand's untriigliche Wahrsagekarten..
Vorrathig bei Beuckert & Radetzki, Berlin, alte Jacobstrasse 86."
31 x 24 in.
328. Frankfort a/M.; modern. Complete pack of 32, with the same
designs as the preceding, the titles being given in German,
French, English and Dutch. Backs decorated with a blue
diaper. In original wrapper. [Said to be published by J. A.
Steinberger at Frankfort.]
33 x 2i in.
329. Munich. Baumgartner, 1813. Complete pack of 36, similar in
character to the preceding, with the titles in German only. At
the top of the first card is " von Kartenmacher Baumgartner in
Miinchen"; and another, entitled "Ein Haus," is the front of a
house over the door of which is the date 1813. Backs decorated
with a pattern of dots and stars in blue.
34 x 24 in.
330. [Munich P] 1813. Imperfect pack of 34, having the same
designs and titles as the last, and the same date, but without
the publisher's name. Backs decorated with a smaller pattern of
stars and dots. Soiled and injured.
34 x 24 in.
331. [Munich P]; early 19th century. Complete pack of 32, similar
in character to the preceding. Coarsely coloured. Backs decorated
with a pattern of dots and crescents in black.
34 x 21 in.