Series V. Other Playing Cards

Scope and Contents note

Series V. dates from 1699 to 2000. This series contains 24 card decks from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. It also includes a "millenium deck" printed by the International Playing Card Society and given to the New-York Historical Society when the organization met in New York City in 2000.

"[Spanish translucent cards]" is the only known pack of erotic cards to have been made with Spanish suit signs, although this deck is not the sole copy.

Cards in this series were published in: Prague, Czechoslovakia; Pest, Hungary; Urbino, Milan, and Trevizo, Italy; Madrid, Barcelona, and Igualda, Spain; and Neuchatel, Switzerland. See the database for more information on the decks' creation.

Cards are ordered by country of origin and thereunder by date and then alphabetically by name or subject. Cards with known dates always come before those with circa dates.

Belgian Cards

[Mogul Cards], undated

Box: 13, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Mini Belgian deck], [1875], inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Czechoslovakian Cards

Zauberschleier, Wastl und Welt - umsegler, 1843, inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dutch Cards

Tiresias voorzeggende Kaarten Almanack, undated

Box: 13, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Loterijspel, [1815], inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A.B.C. En Geschenk voor Lieve Kindere, [1855], inclusive

Box: 13, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hong Kong Cards

[Mini Hong Kong deck], [1973], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hungarian Cards

[Tarocchini from Pest], undated

Box: 14, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Italian Cards

[Albani], [1699], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Eighteenth century deck from Naples], [1750], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Gumppenberg's Tarot], [1838], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Preziozo], [1866], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Spanish Cards

[Rf. Fa. DEMd. Ano OE 1801], 1801, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 13-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Anton Lombart, Barcelona], 1825, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Spanish translucent cards], 1877, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Girbau y Audinis, Igualda], [1885], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Swiss Cards

[Tarot from Bern], undated

Box: 14, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[C.F. Dreyspring Tarrocchini], 1801, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Rochias Tarocchini], 1816, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Game of marriages], [1840], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The lottery of traders, [1840], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Schaffhouse Tarot], [1860], inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Other Cards

[IPCS Millenium Deck], 2000, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)