Name: Auction: SET OF AUSTRIAN/BOHEMIAN ANIMAL TAROT PLAYING CARDS LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 GBP
Availability: InStock

Day One | Wed 12th Nov at 10am | Lots 1 to 338

Day Two | Thurs 13th Nov at 10am | Lots 339 to 600

We are pleased to present the November 2025 edition of Five Centuries, held at our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Spanning the decorative arts from the 16th to the 20th century, this carefully curated sale offers a rich and varied selection of traditional British and European furniture, paintings, clocks, ceramics, sculpture and works of art.&nbsp;This edition features property from notable private collections, including Property of a Knightsbridge Residence; Select Pieces Previously at Kinross House; Property of a Belgravia Residence; Property from Westness House, Orkney; Property from the Ursula &amp; Gordon Bowyer Collection; a collection of paintings by Austrian artists; and a collection of early bronzes from The Bernard Kelly Collection.Buyer's Guide:

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with a complete deck of 56 stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (French suits) each suit of 13 with four court cards of the valet (knave or jack), the cavalier (knight), the dame (lady or queen), and the roi (king), also with one fool (joker) card, the knave of hearts with marked ‘John Eberhard’, the queen of hearts with initial cartouche ‘IE’, the king of hearts with initial cartouche ‘inN’, the knave of spades marked ‘Karten Fabrikant in Nuremberg’, both the queen and king of spades with initial cartouche ‘JE’, together with set of 21 double-ended trump cards with Roman numerals I-XXI to both sides, depicting animals and people, versos of all cards purple paste marbled; all inside a small black and gilt japanned box [57+21] (77)

SET OF AUSTRIAN/BOHEMIAN ANIMAL TAROT PLAYING CARDS

LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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