KariRoad
Hi!
I think you need to research the manual. It looks like it is in a box, so I wonder, are the cards the same size, do all fit in the box?
The rounded corners are an interesting detail as well. Read the book, please.
Antique Lenormand
I think you need to research the manual. It looks like it is in a box, so I wonder, are the cards the same size, do all fit in the box?
The rounded corners are an interesting detail as well. Read the book, please.
Teheuti
Yes - please report on the booklet if you can find a way to open it.
The top half of the card sometimes shows the Court Cards. I wonderful if the other images could be related to the pip cards that would normally fill that space? Still, there are some non-typical Lenormand cards. How many cards are there?
The top half of the card sometimes shows the Court Cards. I wonderful if the other images could be related to the pip cards that would normally fill that space? Still, there are some non-typical Lenormand cards. How many cards are there?
balusan
booklet
The booklet is a one sheet that holds the information in German, and there are 36 cards in the deck. We have opened and copied it, and you can see it in the pics here. There was no original box, it was placed in another box so sorry no leads there.
It sure seems like a one of a kind
The booklet is a one sheet that holds the information in German, and there are 36 cards in the deck. We have opened and copied it, and you can see it in the pics here. There was no original box, it was placed in another box so sorry no leads there.
It sure seems like a one of a kind
Cerulean
It has three pictures on Christie's auction site as lot 142
one of several Austrian cartomancy decks, page 113 in the catalog. Piatnik and Sohn, circa 1900, it was sold as 36 cards in a lot of seven decks that was valued together at three to five hundred dollars. The booklet is said to be "with losses", so could be your set was from the Kaplan auction.
If no one else finds it at the Christie's online site, I could look later.
My 1870 deck is also fragile, looks different than yours. I posted pictures in the 1870 German Lenormand deck thread...if you cannot find it on Aeclectic.net Lenormand foru, I will try to link you to it or you can send a pm to me.
Cerulean
one of several Austrian cartomancy decks, page 113 in the catalog. Piatnik and Sohn, circa 1900, it was sold as 36 cards in a lot of seven decks that was valued together at three to five hundred dollars. The booklet is said to be "with losses", so could be your set was from the Kaplan auction.
If no one else finds it at the Christie's online site, I could look later.
My 1870 deck is also fragile, looks different than yours. I posted pictures in the 1870 German Lenormand deck thread...if you cannot find it on Aeclectic.net Lenormand foru, I will try to link you to it or you can send a pm to me.
Cerulean
Cerulean
Here is the description and will upload a picture from the Christie's Auction catalog
Unfortunately, as I checked online at the Christie's Auction House catalog, the Lot 142 partial photograph doesn't seem to be listed. Here is the complete description as transcribed from page 113 of 2006 Historic Cards and Games: the Stuart and Marilyn Kaplan Collection: Wednesday, June 26, 2006.
The description is so like your deck, I really think yours is from the Kaplan collection.
Lot 142...(last deck listed of 7 sold together)...
circa 1900, maker unknown, 36 of 36 cards, lithography, each card is horizontally divided, the bottom half more or less corresponds to traditional Lenormand series, the top half often are engmatic, both designs are framed by planetary and zodiacal symbols, the imagery may have been inspired by cards published in Berlin by Beuckert & Radetzki in 1880, backs are dots and crescents in black, colorful tuck box flat (from another deck?), instruction sheet with losses, one card has some surface loss otherwise in generally fine condition.
The lot of 7 decks were priced together as $300-500.
Hope this helps you to enjoy your deck. I will upload a picture of the bottom row of cards, which is like your deck. Only three are pictured.
It took a some time to locate this, and it wasn't actually what I was looking for--I just remembered your query and hope this is what you were trying to find..
Unfortunately, as I checked online at the Christie's Auction House catalog, the Lot 142 partial photograph doesn't seem to be listed. Here is the complete description as transcribed from page 113 of 2006 Historic Cards and Games: the Stuart and Marilyn Kaplan Collection: Wednesday, June 26, 2006.
The description is so like your deck, I really think yours is from the Kaplan collection.
Lot 142...(last deck listed of 7 sold together)...
circa 1900, maker unknown, 36 of 36 cards, lithography, each card is horizontally divided, the bottom half more or less corresponds to traditional Lenormand series, the top half often are engmatic, both designs are framed by planetary and zodiacal symbols, the imagery may have been inspired by cards published in Berlin by Beuckert & Radetzki in 1880, backs are dots and crescents in black, colorful tuck box flat (from another deck?), instruction sheet with losses, one card has some surface loss otherwise in generally fine condition.
The lot of 7 decks were priced together as $300-500.
Hope this helps you to enjoy your deck. I will upload a picture of the bottom row of cards, which is like your deck. Only three are pictured.
It took a some time to locate this, and it wasn't actually what I was looking for--I just remembered your query and hope this is what you were trying to find..
IheartTarot
Huck, in case you did not know there is now a picture of the Game of Hope on the British Museum website (discussed in this thread).
I have written a blog post about the collection bequeathed to the British Museum that includes this deck ("Lady Charlotte's gift"). A few of the decks in the extensive collection are actually named after Mademoiselle Lenormand, including one 36 card "piquet pack" dated late 19th century that was published in France (see British Museum website - no picture online and I am not in a position to visit the museum unfortunately).
Cerulean
Here's the picture from lot 142 of Christie's 2008 auction catalog, the circa 1900
Unfortunately, as I checked online at the Christie's Auction House catalog, the Lot 142 partial photograph doesn't seem to be listed. Here is the complete description as transcribed from page 113 of 2006 Historic Cards and Games: the Stuart and Marilyn Kaplan Collection: Wednesday, June 26, 2006.
The description is so like your deck, I really think yours is from the Kaplan collection.
Lot 142...(last deck listed of 7 sold together)...
circa 1900, maker unknown, 36 of 36 cards, lithography, each card is horizontally divided, the bottom half more or less corresponds to traditional Lenormand series, the top half often are engmatic, both designs are framed by planetary and zodiacal symbols, the imagery may have been inspired by cards published in Berlin by Beuckert & Radetzki in 1880, backs are dots and crescents in black, colorful tuck box flat (from another deck?), instruction sheet with losses, one card has some surface loss otherwise in generally fine condition.
The lot of 7 decks were priced together as $300-500.
Unfortunately, as I checked online at the Christie's Auction House catalog, the Lot 142 partial photograph doesn't seem to be listed. Here is the complete description as transcribed from page 113 of 2006 Historic Cards and Games: the Stuart and Marilyn Kaplan Collection: Wednesday, June 26, 2006.
The description is so like your deck, I really think yours is from the Kaplan collection.
Lot 142...(last deck listed of 7 sold together)...
circa 1900, maker unknown, 36 of 36 cards, lithography, each card is horizontally divided, the bottom half more or less corresponds to traditional Lenormand series, the top half often are engmatic, both designs are framed by planetary and zodiacal symbols, the imagery may have been inspired by cards published in Berlin by Beuckert & Radetzki in 1880, backs are dots and crescents in black, colorful tuck box flat (from another deck?), instruction sheet with losses, one card has some surface loss otherwise in generally fine condition.
The lot of 7 decks were priced together as $300-500.
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IheartTarot
IheartTarot
This tip led me to a listing of a similar deck in the Schreiber collection at the British Museum (see British Museum website, no picture online unfortunately):
IheartTarot
Case closed
I am pretty sure you have a copy of the Beuckert and Radetzki deck that is sitting at the British Museum.
I am pretty sure you have a copy of the Beuckert and Radetzki deck that is sitting at the British Museum.
