Livre du Destin
Livre du Destin / The Book of Fate, c.1900, entire deck (32 cards)
Livre du Destin, large size scans of entire deck (32 cards / 21 Mb.)
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Card no.16 has the tax stamp
Above: cards from “Livre du Destin” or “Book of Fate” with titles in French and English, published by Chartier-Marteau & Boudin and printed by B.P. Grimaud, Paris, c.1900. The cards measure 11 cm tall and 7.2 cm wide. The tax stamp visible on card 16 is dated Apr 12, 1890. Images courtesy Gilles Daigle.
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