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Re: Shame of Time

This book seem interesting: Stamperie, carte e cartiere nella Ronciglione del XVII e XVIII secolo: atti della giornata di studio presso la Sala riunioni della Cassa rurale e artigiana, 26 ottobre 1991 Francesco M. D'Orazi Centro ricerche e studi, 1996. I cant read it, but in the title we can found ...

Re: Shame of Time

The IPCS article from October 1989 has the two Minchiate sheets found in the binding of some notarial documents titled "1585". As already stated: the binding might have happened later. The article speaks of evidence for playing card production from begin of 17th century till one century la...

Re: Shame of Time

... :-? ... I dont understand... why Orazi are sure the sheets are from the XVII century? I cant see any date or name of cardmarker... Maybe I need read this book: http://www.ronciglione-crs.it/CRS/home/Index-sommario.htm I think, there's no evidence for card production in Ronciglinne before ca. 15...

Re: The knight with big head

:) There is a curious detail ... I didn't know a heraldic emblem of Galeazzo II Visconti: a lion with a big helmet on his head. http://www.storiadimilano.it/arte/imprese/Imprese04.htm I dont said this helmet is the same heraldic helmet, but is curious... A second version ... http://upload.wikimedia...

Re: Tarock of Cologne

well I can explain the placing of the One of trump, for In the german game of tarock, the one of trump ("pagat") has a special role, and related to the "le battleur" of tarot, which is depicted as a magician, or trivial performer and so, the "pagat" is naturally a jest...

Re: Tarock of Cologne

From the appearence of this deck, It looks like one of the countless decks published during the 18th-19thc. in Germany , where the norlma subjects of the trumps (love, death, world...) were replaced with scenes of countries, or pictures of animals- the variant with animals on them is still used in ...

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