Authentic French Revolution c1780 Poker Playing Cards Historic French Single

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French Revolution c1780 Quill Scripted Notes & Colored Playing Cards Single +COA

Certificate of Authenticity COA (included)

Woodblock Printed French Single - Historically Scarce. 86mm x 54mm

18th Century Printed: Stencil Color Painted, circa 1780 : Secondary Use: Personal use.

Card Printer: Leroy / Paris - Type 1

Généralité de Paris

Condition: Historic condition ,acceptable corners, solid,very lightly surface soiled, secondary handwritten colonial french script, overall beautiful history.

This incredibly rare single playing card from France is a highly collectible artifact printed from a woodblock. This museum quality rare piece of history is in very good condition with slight surface quill pen ink on face but acceptable.

The handmade and hand stencil painted historic card will be protected in a ultra violet 1/2 inch thick screw down shelf stable protected screw-down lucite case ready for display and years of enjoyment.

This is a true piece of history as each card does tell a story and also proves that owning such a magnificent artifact is truly remarkable! Gorgeous card and is a spectacular example and is one great reason to own such a piece that\'s rich in history.

Back in the 15/18th century many playing cards was used a invoice, Library use, promissory,messages or loan piece that was used as a contract of monetary value or many other reasons.

Playing cards tell a story. About the technique that they are made with, about the style and taste of their era. But also about the thriftiness in the past, as single cards from incomplete decks were used for just about anything that one can do with paper: they were written or drawn upon, overprinted, but also cut, rolled or pleated and glued or pinned to something. Stationery paper was rare and expensive and playing cards were relatively cheap and had a handy format and a certain firmness. The cards were sold in paper wrappers, instead of the boxes that we now have, and therefore got lost easily.

Already in the 15th century playing cards were given a secondary use for all kinds of goals. A few examples from a wide range:

They were used as simple labels, but also for announcements of weddings or funerals, emergency money, IOU \'s; for music notations.

Their secondary use turns these playing cards into a rare and valuable source of documentation of daily life from the 15th to the 20th century.

You can imagine that there are amusing, interesting, remarkable and sometimes repugnant stories to tell.

Although many of the figures were already known on earlier cards, the Paris pattern was established as such around the middle of the seventeenth century (based, perhaps, on the cards of Hector of Troyes).

The cards had single-figure courts until around 1830 when the double-ended version came into use. The court cards are usually named, and the exact reason for, or origins of, these names is still open to debate but they seem to derive from epic narratives from the age of chivalry or heroes of antiquity.

The court card designs also appear in the cards of other parts of Europe as provincial variants (e.g. Belgian \'Genoese\' pattern, Italian \'Piedmont\' pattern). In the middle of the eighteenth century legislation was introduced making the Paris pattern the official portrait or pattern for the whole of northern France.

Some of the oldest cards still in existence come largely from Lyons, a city in which the craft of cardmaking flourished from an early date and which became an important centre of French card-making. It seems that the provinces bordering on Italy and Germany were the first to produce playing cards.

Indeed, an ordinance from Paris, 1377, forbade card games on workdays. Another ordinance from the city of Lille, dated 1382, when Lille belonged to France, forbade various games including dice and “quartes” (an early word for cards).

There is also the well-known account of a certain Jacquemin Grigonneur who in 1392 was paid 56 “sols Parisis” for three packs of gilded cards, painted with divers colours and several devices, to be carried to the king for his amusement. No-one knows what sort of cards these were.

Much of the early history of cards in France is to do with standard designs and their spread, coupled with a keen sense of economic advantage.

Having invented the ‘French’ suit system (piques, coeurs, carreaux & trefles), French manufacturers were able to introduce economies of labour which gave their products a competitive advantage.

Jean de Dale (active 1485-1515), Jean Personne (1493-1497), Antoine de Logiriera (Toulouse, 1495-1518), Martial Gué (Limoges, c.1538) and Pierre Mareschal. Several examples of cards by Jean Personne survive in museums and libraries.

At an early period the French card makers introduced the practice of giving the names of famous heroes from the literature of antiquity or epic narratives of the age of chivalry to the court cards: Alexander, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, David, Rachel, Argine, Judith, Pallas, Hector, Lahire, Lancelot and Hogier. In each case a romantic story or legend is associated with the hero depicted on the card.

Some early French cards have Latin/Spanish suit symbols, as do some early German cards, and the queens are replaced by cavaliers. Spanish-suited cards had reached many different places, having spread along trade routes of the time.

The only survivors among Spanish-suited cards in France today are Aluette cards (primarily of Brittany) and the French Catalan pattern of the Eastern Pyrenées.

By the fifteenth century French suit symbols had crossed to England. During the sixteenth century Rouen and Lyons became centres for the exportation of French playing cards, and from Rouen cards were imported to the British Isles and to the Netherlands and Germany. From England, of course, they spread to America and have become ubiquitous throughout the world.

Playing cards very soon attracted the attention of the tax authorities in France. As early as 1613, Louis XIII decreed that cardmakers should place their name on the knave of clubs.

In 1701 a further law was passed in France laying down fixed designs for the playing cards from each of the nine regions, so that stereotyped playing cards from each region were produced which could be identified by the authorities. This tended to result in lower quality cards, with the standard falling all the time, as revenues became the most important criterion.

It best to believe that owning a complete set will cost 2000-10000 if you are lucky to get one, most in museums and in prestigious collections.

Now you can own one historic card with pure confidence and having the luxury of displaying a historic time piece that\'s rich in history!

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Playing cards have been around a thousand years or more and are infinite in their variety. This makes individual playing cards and complete decks rich in history and every bit as collectible as coins and postage stamps.The Price Guide for Collectible Playing Cards is intended to be a basic resource for collectors of playing cards and decks of playing cards and to give at least some idea of what different decks of cards may be worth among other collectors.

Some advice for both buyers and sellers. “advice to buyers .... if you see a deck that you really want for your collection and you have an opportunity to buy it, and the price seems higher than the listed value, remember you may never find another .... and if you do, it will probably be for more. Even if you overpay slightly, it will not be long before the value will surpass the purchase price

The demand for old and rare playing cards far exceeds the supply, and we have all experienced regret, on occasion, for not paying the additional dollars necessary to purchase a scarce deck that we have not had another chance to buy.

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