Beschreibung:

Belgian playing cards. Napoleon's Victories, Turnhout: van Genechten, circa 1880, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), double-ended Bongoût pattern courts, aces showing battles from the Napoleonic Wars, lightly toned, queen of clubs with small brown mark to edge, jack of hearts with slight abrasion to suit signs, versos dark blue dotted wavy lines and flowers, each card 93 x 62 mm, together with: Cartes Universelles, Bruges: Daveluy, circa 1860, also known as Des Quatre Parties du Monde, a complete deck of 48 chromolithographed heightened with gold playing cards (Spanish suits), each suit representing a continent (named on the aces), full-length courts representing characters of that continent, with pintas and indices, some marks and brown stains (mainly affecting pip cards), some courts with faint blue edge staining, 2 courts and 2 pip cards with minor surface loss to blank areas (affecting line border on 2 cards, and one of the pip cards with associated minor adhesion from a card verso), one pip card with slight surface loss centrally, versos blue dotted pattern of wavy lines, each card 91 x 56 mm, plus: Brazilian aces, Turnhout: Brepols, circa 1880, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), double-ended Bongoût style courts, aces showing unusual Brazilian scenes, occasional spots or minor marks, versos red and blue tartan, each card 91 x 62 mm, with six other Belgian late 19th century decks, comprising: Cartes de Luxe, by Biermans, circa 1877, 52 rotogravure playing cards (see Van Autenboer, Memo from Belgium, p.108 & 110); English pattern, by Glenisson & Zonen, two packs - circa 1875 and circa 1890 (one with Great Mogul wrapper); three packs by L. Biermans - one standard French pattern circa 1885 (with wrapper), one Cartes Francaises (reduced pack of 36) circa 1895, with wrapper showing Trade Mark 78 (Giraffe) and LB monogram, and one English pattern circa 1890, with Great Mogul wrapper showing Biermans diamond-shaped lion trademark, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 9 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cm and similar (Quantity: 9) Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. First item: aces very similar to Shaw & Symons (2005) Set 29. Second item: Daveluy 23.