Fortune Telling Deck, c.1818
Fortune Telling Deck by Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig c.1818.

German-suited Fortune Telling deck by Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig c.1818, 36 cards. Inscriptions in German and Polish.
These are an interesting alternative to the more common Madame Lenormand or Book of Fate cartomancy cards, with a different repertoire of images. They differ from the typical French ones, of course, in that there are no miniature playing cards inside the design, but instead the German suit symbols.

Above: Fortune Telling deck by Industrie Comptoir, Leipzig c.1818. Saxonian tax stamp (1819 - 1834) on the Seven of Bells. Printed by lithography 36 cards. Similar decks were made by Backofen in Nürnberg and Knaut in Weimar
See also: Argentinean Tarocco • Book of Fate • Buena Suerte Cartomancy, c.1975 • Cartas Blancas • Cartas Gitanas • Cartomancy & Divination Cards • Edyta Gdek Tarot • 17th Century Fortune-Telling Cards • 72 Names Cards • Geistliche Karten, 1718 • German Fortune Telling cards, c.1818 • Grapho-Deck • Jason Ennis Tarot • Minchiate • Dondorf Lenormand Cards for H.P. Gibson, London • Mlle Lenormand Cartomancy • Mail Artist's Lenormand Deck • Naipes Tu Destino • Picture Book of Ana Cortez • Picture Show Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards • Rameses Fortune-telling cards • Ramses II Tarot • Self-Guided Tarot • Self-Nurturing Solitaire • Tarocco Bolognese • Tarocco Piemontesi • Taroquis Obelisco • Tarot Egipcios Kier • Welsh Tarot • Tarot

By Klaus-Jürgen Schultz
Member since January 05, 2023
From the collection of Klaus-Jürgen Schultz (https://spielkarten-sammlung.de).
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