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No. 536
Author
Title
No. 536.
Publication
Paris : B. P. Grimaud, [1915?]
Physical Description
52 cards : color ; 44 x 31 mm
Medium
lithography
Local Notes
BEIN 367 1: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
BEIN 367 2: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Notes
Title from slip case.
French suit system.
Type: Original design.
Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2].
CourtCards: Ks, crowned suit signs; R-Roi (king); D-Dame (queen); V-Valet (jack); KS, orb and sceptre; KH, scroll and sceptre; KD, sword and shield; KC holds sword and sceptre.
Issued in pink or blue slip case.
Tax stamp on Ace of Clubs, blue: REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / DECRET DU 12 AVRIL 1890 [head in profile].
Format
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Added to Catalog
July 14, 2020
References
Keller, W.B. Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library, FRA367
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Playing cards.
Tax stamps (Printing)
Also listed under
B. P. Grimaud (Firm), playing card maker.
Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
France Paris.
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