Aluette by Dieudonné Jeune, Orléans, c.1850
Aluette game by Fabrique Dieudonné Jeune, Orléans, c.1850.
Aluette pack produced by Jean Dieudonné (1811-1886), a Dieudonné family descendent who had emigrated to Orleans, France. He was the son of the Luxembourgish card-maker Matthias Dieudonné and Catherine Schmidt. He married Eugénie-Catherine Lamy on April 16, 1845. He was first associated with his brother Jean-Mathieu between 1841 and 1845 trading as Dieudonné frères, after which he then ran his own factory named Dieudonné Jeune. The cards in this 48-card pack show several Spanish stylistic characteristics including ‘pintas’ or border-breaks, with the legend “Naipes Finos” on the ace of coins, and are said to be intended for the Spanish market.
Above: 48-card Aluette pack produced by Fabrique Dieudonné Jeune (Jean Dieudonné, active 1845-1886), Orléans, c.1850. Stencil-coloured engravings. Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France Jeu d'aluette édité pour l'Espagne►
By Simon Wintle
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Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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