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

GERMAN1~4 CARDS.:

75

I.-WITH NATIONAL SUITS.
(a.) Packs of 48.
1. Stukeley's Cards. The well-known set, of which no other example
is known, discovered in the binding of a fifteenth century book,
and given by Dr. Thomas Rawlinson to Dr. Stukeley, who exhibited it to the Society of Antiquaries in 1763. It is a 52 card
pack minus the aces. Mounted in a volume having the bookplates
of Mark Cephas Tutet and W. H. Crawford, of Lakelands, the
former of whom purchased the cards at the Stukeley sale in 1766
(see Chatto, p. 205).
27 x 13 in. [S. Vol. II, pl. 75-78.]
2. Stukeley's Cards. A set of water-colour copies of the preceding
pack; bound in a similar volume, at the end of which are ten of
the twelve court cards of an early French pack.
3. Nuremberg; early 16th century. F. C. Z. A modern fraudulent
imitation of the extremely rare pack described by Chatto
(p. 236) and Willshire (p. 199), which is now accepted as the
work of Peter Flotner (see Lange's " Peter Flotner," 1897, p. 27).
The cards are all drawn with pen and ink on artificially discoloured
paper, and carefully coloured and gilded. The set is complete, but
the subjects on the four aces are replaced by the arms of the Duke
of Modena, elaborately blazoned. Backs plain.
33 x 23 in.
[For reproductions of the imperfect sets of the original woodcuts
preserved at Paris and Berlin, see the volume published by the
Societe des Bibliophiles Frangais, 1844, and Hirth's "Grands Illustrateurs," etc., II, 756.]
4. Place of issue uncertain. Johann Gottrichter; 18th century(?)
Complete pack, coarsely coloured with stencils. Each suit consists
of two knaves, queen, king, and numerals 2-9. The court cards
are figures in sixteenth century costumes, the kings on horseback.
The deuce of hearts bears the imperial eagle and a German duty
stamp. On the deuce of acorns is the name " Joh. Gottrichter," and
on that of bells " Hans Casper Feitzinger Formschneiter." Backs
decorated with a pattern of black and white squares.
38 x 1 in.
5. Frankfort a/M. C. L. Wiist; modern. Gargel cards. Complete
double-ended pack consisting of 24 cards in duplicate. Each suit