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Re: Collection ... Karnöffel

Thanks very much for reporting on vh0610's inquiry into Nördlingen. That's solid enough to dispel it. I don't think anyone doubts that the game is older, perhaps even three decades older, than 1446. Unlike with carte da trionfi, Karnöffel doesn't have a sudden cluster of references and surviving car...

Re: origin of the word "Bagat"

Extremely interesting. Thanks for posting all of these attestations of bagatella etc., along with your thoughts. Does it seem to you that the card originally depicted a bagatella - a trick, or specifically the cup and balls trick, and that it came to be attached to the figure doing the trick, becaus...

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