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The Stuttgart pack or Stuttgart Cards (german: Stuttgarter Kartenspiel) is one of the most valuable collections of the
''Stuttgart pack, c.1430''
at the World of Playing Cards. Retrieved 9 September 2016.Pollett, Andrea
at Andy's Playing Cards. Retrieved 9 September 2016. They are thus among the earliest surviving packs of playing cards.
The Stuttgart pack or Stuttgart Cards (german: Stuttgarter Kartenspiel) is one of the most valuable collections of the Landesmuseum Württemberg
The Landesmuseum Württemberg (Württemberg State Museum) is the main historical museum of the Württemberg part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It emerged from the 16th-century “Kunstkammer” ( Cabinet of art and curiosities) of t ...
. It is a hunting-themed deck of playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a fi ...
s painted on gilded pasteboard dating to around 1430.Wintle, Adam''Stuttgart pack, c.1430''
at the World of Playing Cards. Retrieved 9 September 2016.Pollett, Andrea
at Andy's Playing Cards. Retrieved 9 September 2016. They are thus among the earliest surviving packs of playing cards.
Description
49 of the original 52 cards survive. The cards are divided into four suits of thirteen ranks. The suits of stags and hounds are led by femaleface card
In a deck of playing cards, the term face card (US) or court card (British and US), and sometimes Royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. They are also known as picture cards, or until the e ...
s (Queen
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Monarchy
* Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom
** List of queens regnant
* Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
* Queen dowager, the widow of a king
* Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mother ...
, female Ober, female Unter) while the suits of ducks and falcons are led by men (King
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king.
*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...
, male Ober, male Unter). The 10 of each suit is represented with a banner
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like in Swiss playing cards. The backs are uniformly painted with red lead.
Facsimiles
A limited edition facsimile of the cards was produced as a boxed set with accompanying booklet in German and English by an unknown manufacturer with the claim that the original cards are the oldest surviving pack in Europe.See also
*Ambraser Hofjagdspiel
The Ambraser Hofjagdspiel (Court Hunting Pack of Ambras), also called the "Ambras falconer cards", is a pack of cards painted around 1440–1445 and attributed to the engraver Konrad Witz from Basle, Switzerland. It originally consisted of fif ...
, another 15th-century hunting deck
*Flemish Hunting Deck
The Flemish Hunting Deck, also known as the Cloisters set of fifty-two playing cards and Hofjaren Jachtpakket (in Dutch), is a set of fifty-two playing cards owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States. It is significant in th ...
, another 15th-century hunting deck
*Hofämterspiel
Hofämterspiel ("Courtly Household Cards"), one of the earliest packs of playing cards on record preserved in its entirety with all 48 cards intact, is a major 15th-century medieval handmade deck commissioned by Ladislaus the Posthumous, King of H ...
, a deck found together with the Hofjagdspiel in Ambras Castle
Footnotes
References
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