Lot 94
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Mainz Carnival Tarock, 1839, Darmstadt, Maxmilliam Frommann (?), 58 of 78 cards, (includes eighteen trumps, I to III, V to XII, XV to XXI, eleven courts, valet of spades, queen, cavalier and valet of hearts and clubs, and king, queen, cavalier and valet of diamonds, and twenty-nine pips), etchings on trumps, stencil-colored lithography on courts, stencil-colored pips. Trumps have double-ended Roman numerals with different views and captions, trump I displays carnival figures and MAINZ CARNIVAL 1839, remaining trumps are named views of European towns mainly in Germany, such as II Darmstadt/Homburg v. d. H, and also Bern, Lausanne, etc. Courts are double-ended, unnamed, and the engravings differ from the other Mainz Carnival Tarock deck in this catalog, French suits, no indices, square corners. Backs are overall pattern of dots in red. Size 4 3/16 in (10.5 cm.) high, 2 5/16 in.5.8 cm.). Slightly worn, small ink spot on corner of trump X, back of card has five rows of handwritten numb
Mainz Carnival Tarock, 1839, Darmstadt, Maxmilliam Frommann (?), 58 of 78 cards, (includes eighteen trumps, I to III, V to XII, XV to XXI, eleven courts, valet of spades, queen, cavalier and valet of hearts and clubs, and king, queen, cavalier and valet of diamonds, and twenty-nine pips), etchings on trumps, stencil-colored lithography on courts, stencil-colored pips. Trumps have double-ended Roman numerals with different views and captions, trump I displays carnival figures and MAINZ CARNIVAL 1839, remaining trumps are named views of European towns mainly in Germany, such as II Darmstadt/Homburg v. d. H, and also Bern, Lausanne, etc. Courts are double-ended, unnamed, and the engravings differ from the other Mainz Carnival Tarock deck in this catalog, French suits, no indices, square corners. Backs are overall pattern of dots in red. Size 4 3/16 in (10.5 cm.) high, 2 5/16 in.5.8 cm.). Slightly worn, small ink spot on corner of trump X, back of card has five rows of handwritten numbers.

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Mainz Carnival Tarock, 1839, Darmstadt, Maxmilliam Frommann (?), 58 of 78 cards, (includes eighteen trumps, I to III, V to XII, XV to XXI, eleven courts, valet of spades, queen, cavalier and valet of hearts and clubs, and king, queen, cavalier and valet of diamonds, and twenty-nine pips), etchings on trumps, stencil-colored lithography on courts, stencil-colored pips. Trumps have double-ended Roman numerals with different views and captions, trump I displays carnival figures and MAINZ CARNIVAL 1839, remaining trumps are named views of European towns mainly in Germany, such as II Darmstadt/Homburg v. d. H, and also Bern, Lausanne, etc. Courts are double-ended, unnamed, and the engravings differ from the other Mainz Carnival Tarock deck in this catalog, French suits, no indices, square corners. Backs are overall pattern of dots in red. Size 4 3/16 in (10.5 cm.) high, 2 5/16 in.5.8 cm.). Slightly worn, small ink spot on corner of trump X, back of card has five rows of handwritten numbers.

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