Article: L726

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Manufacturer: Klaus-Jürgen SCHULTZ, Frieder BÜCHLER

Alte Spielkarten. Seltene Kartenspiele aus drei Privatsammlungen. Schultz/Büchler: Hamburg/Au, 2005. 294x208 mm. 3 ll., 154 pp., 1 leaf with very many color ill. Adhesive binding, ill. covers.
„Old playing cards. Rare card decks from 3 private collections“, so the title. In order to be included in this 2nd work of the duo of authors, the decks have been gauged in regard to their rarity, their beauty and their little degree of common public knowledge. These criteria are certainly not very objective. But still we get here repaid with the presentation of 73 quasi unpublished decks, most of them of German origin: who can say that he knows cards by Joseph Kartier (Augsburg) or Franz Nivet (Dresden)? Numbered edition of 100 copies.

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