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

GERMAN CARDS. 137 and numbers 5-12, accompany the pack; also eight wooden dice and a sheet of instructions in German and French. In original pasteboard case, on which is a coloured engraving of a group of three men and a woman in a landscape, with the title. 356. Costumes of Augsburg; early 18th century. Pack of 33, giving engraved figures of men and women in costumes of different classes. At the bottom of each card is engraved the title in German and French, and most of them bear the address "Joh. Fried. Probst exc. Aug. Vind." Coloured. Backs plain. 33 x 2- in. 357. Costumes of Augsburg; early 18th century. Pack of 33, similar in character to the last, but varying in the subjects and designs. Without publisher's name. Coloured. Backs plain. In pasteboard case. 3- x 2k in. 358. Oriental Costumes; early 18th century. Pack of 27, similar in character to the last, but illustrating the costumes of Asiatic peoples. Every card has its title in German and French. Backs plain. 33 x 2k in. 359. Costumes of eastern Europe; c. 1820. Sixteen cards, each having either one or two figures showing the costumes of Turkish and Austrian provinces; with emblematical devices in the upper corners. On one, entitled " Herz-Coeur," is a young lady holding up a heart. Coloured. Backs plain. Perhaps part of a lottery game. 4i x 31 in. 360. Trades. "Kunst und Gewerkschule." A game consisting of 24 small coloured prints representing various trades and 24 printed cards giving descriptions. With printed sheet of directions. In green pasteboard case, lettered " Die Kunst und Gewerk-Schule. Ein unterhaltendes und belehrendes Spiel," etc. 361. Alphabet. Pack of 25 cards for teaching children the alphabet. Each gives the various written and printed forms of a letter, with a coloured vignette in the centre. With printed tract entitled " Neues lateinisch und deutsches A B C Spiel fur Kinder, mit Vorstellungen aus der Naturgeschichte... Nirnberg, bei G. P. I. Bieling." In pasteboard case, on which the above title is repeated. Backs mottled purple. 44 x 2k in.

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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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British Museum. Dept. of prints and drawings.
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London,: Longmans & co. [etc.]
1901.
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Schreiber, Charlotte, -- Lady, -- 1812-1895.

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