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.

362. Alphabet; early 19th century. Pack of 72, each having a letter
of the Gothic alphabet decorated with some fanciful subject. The
second half of the pack is a repetition of the first, the subjects in
one set being executed in white outlines on a black ground, and
those in the other coloured. In lithography. In green pasteboard case lettered " 72 Bildertafeln zu J. I. Wich's Handbuch.
Niirnberg bei G. N. Renner & Comp."
4 x 4i in.
363. "Tempel der Tugend und Gluckseligkeit-Le Temple de la
Vertu et de la Felicite; Jeu allegorique instructif." The
game consists of 16 cards, numbered 25-40, each having a printed
aphorism in German and French; with a cardboard plan on which
it is played. With eight pages of printed directions, and a
packet of six counters. In green pasteboard case which bears
the above title.
(e.) Fanciful.
364. "Combinations oder mathematisches Desseinspiel-Le
Jeu du Combination ou du Parquet." A game of triangles,
consisting of 16 pasteboard parti-coloured triangles, which form
8 squares (one of the triangles is missing). With sheet of 4
diagrams and printed directions. In pasteboard box which bears
the above title.
365. " Pfand und Comando Spiel." Fifteen of a set of 16 engraved
and coloured cards, each having some domestic subject, with a
sentence in German and French above and two German lines
below. With engraved sheet of directions. In pasteboard case
inscribed " Pfand und Comando Spiel, zu finden bey Georg Vogel
Kupfersticher in Wohrd, bey Niirnberg."
29 x 2* in.
366. "Das Spiel der Liebenden und Verliebten"; 18th century.
A pack of 20, with figures of different classes of lovers, each having
a German title and a representation of a throw of three dice;
with a title card, engraved directions, signed "Job. Trautner
excudit Nor," and six ivory dice enclosed in a wooden cylindrical
box. In original pasteboard case.
3* x i in.
367. "Die Luftreise, ein unterhalten des Gesellschaftsspiel."
A game consisting of six cards containing fancy figures, engraved
and coloured, and six others on each of which is engraved the
name of a city, viz.,-Leipzig, Niirnberg, Wien, Prag, Regensburg and Petersburg. With engraved sheet of directions. In
pasteboard case which bears the above title.