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DAS AMBRASER HOFJAGDSPIELTHE PACK OF PRINCELY HUNTING CARDS1969 LEIPZIG EDITIONGerman Playing Cards & BoxEXTEREMELY HARD TO FIND
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TheAmbraser Hofjagdspiel(Court Hunting Pack of Ambras; sometimes theAmbras Falconer cardsor theCourtly Hunt Cards) is a pack of cards painted around 1440–1445 and attributed to the engraver Konrad Witzfrom Basel, Switzerland.It originally consisted of fifty-six cards from which only 54 survive, all distributed in four suits, Falcons, Lures, Hounds and Herons. Symbols related to hunting.Each suit contained ten pipcards with the 10s being represented by a bannerlike many old German playing cardsand modern Swiss playing cards. There are four face cardsper suit: the Unter, Ober, Queen, and King. It was found in a collection at the Ambras Castle,in Innsbruck, Austria,in the 16th century, and now figures as a precious item in the collection of cards of the Kunsthistorisches Museum(Museum of Art History) in Vienna.
This is the 1969 Leipzig Edition. Original softcover in linen box, 11x16cm, condition: 51 text pages, 12 plate pages. With an introduction by Herwarth Röttgen and 54 coloured cards. Bilingual edition. Translated from German into English by M. v. Herzfeld. Konrad Witz originally created 56 cards for the game around 1440/1445, of which only 54 have survived.
MINT
54 cards / cards / cartes
approx. 95 x 150 mm (6 x 3 3/4\")
No damage to cards or booklet. All Cards Shown
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