I've read this, but it isn't convincing
The nature of this deck was "Unsolved Problems of Playing Card History" no. 10, but it appears to have been solved when somebody noticed that one of Stuart Kaplan's decks that went to auction in 2006 was one of the Orfeo decks:
There was a specific Tarockgame in one of the Swiss valleys with a shortened deck. Researchers wondered, where the deck was produced. The simple solution: the players bought full decks asnd reduced the cards, which they didn't need for the game.
Perhaps had the Orfeo-owner in Lucca a similar coperation with a Florentine producer. For instance he might have bougth the missing cards in his own production from a Florentine artist for the case, that he could sell a few Minchiate instead the Lucca decks.
There is the very humble number of probability "1: (a little more than 29.000)" for the same 9 missing cards of 22.
1*2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9 / 13*13*13*13*13*13*13*13*13
And we have the strange relations between Lucca deck and Sola-Busca.
And some coincidence of Beaux-Arts and Rothschild sheets with 12 of 13, recently detected by Magic Moon.
And a Prince Fibbia from Lucca, who invented something with cards in Bologna.
And the fact, that Lucca had a very lucky year in 1369 caused by emperor Karl IV, who arranged, that Lucca got about 400 years of Indepency.
The same Karl IV, about whom the trade researcher F.L.Hübsch wrote in Prag 1849:
Automatic translation:
From Page 242: "A card painter named Jonathan Kraysel from Nuremberg also appears in Prague in 1354. Whether similar artists had previously been in Prague, or whether the playing cards were supplied by the illustrators, cannot be proven diplomatically (Note 278).
The oldest reliable records of the use of playing cards in Bohemia date back to 1340, but documents show that they were used by Polish noblemen as a pastime even earlier. It is also likely that these playing cards, as already noted, were already known in Bohemia under King John, at which time the courtiers in France became acquainted with them. Whether they were made in Bohemia itself at that time and by whom, or whether they were brought to Bohemia by foreign merchants, cannot be determined; suffice it to say, for now, that the first card maker was the artist who came from Nuremberg."
(Note 278) "Among the common games listed by name in the royal prohibitions, and for which educational institutions already existed under King John, there are several whose nature cannot be determined. Dice and balls were among the forbidden; cards among the permitted. To curb the gambling addiction, which was then increasingly prevalent among the younger citizens, Charles decreed that whoever lost at dice should have the right to reclaim their losses for a full three years; indeed, if they failed to exercise this right within the first two months, their closest relatives should be entitled to do so in their place. Severe prison sentences and fines were imposed on all forbidden games. Anyone caught throwing a fake dice lost the thumb of their right hand, but this could be converted into a fine. The clergy zealously opposed gambling. Games permitted were those in which winning and losing did not depend entirely on chance, but rather depended largely on cleverness and reflection."
Karl IV was friendly against playing cards (according Hübsch).
He was in Italy 1368-69 and Franco had found 3 places in Italy which had playing card documents around 1370/71. Portovenere 1370. Buia 1371. Colle del Marchese 1371.
https://naibi.net/A/510-PRE1377ITA-Z.pdf .... Franco doesn't say, that Karl IV has something to do with this.
In 1369 (13 trumps/Fool, 69 card totally) Karl IV was a longer time in Lucca and this was very good for Lucca. Well, a strange accident.
