Tarot "de Marseille" (type II): Rochus I Schär, Mümliswil (c - Lot 1

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Tarot "de Marseille" (type II): Rochus I Schär, Mümliswil (c - Lot 1
Tarot "de Marseille" (type II): Rochus I Schär, Mümliswil (canton of Solothurn, Switzerland), 1750; 78/78 cards, woodcut, stencil colors; 114 x 61 mm; red spine; on 2D: ROCHVS - SCHÆR - CARTIER - ET - GRAVEUR - 1750; on 2C: J HB, on trump VII: I HB (initials of unidentified engraver); paper envelope with red printing (faded) bearing in the center, around the sun: ROCHUS SCHÆR; below: ES DIENET ZUR / NACHRICHT D[ass] / ROCHUS SCHÆR / IN [...] (the rest illegible); one side reads (with difficulty): AUCH ALLER GATUNG[EN] / TROGGEN CARTEN (Troggen is the name of the tarot in Swiss-German dialect). Very complete tarot, in perfect condition, fresh colors, preserved with its envelope, clearly copied from the one by Jean-Baptiste Madenié in Dijon 1739; late printing (late 18th c.). Rare. Ref: Schweizer Spielkarten, Zurich, 1978, no. 147 (only other ex. known, in the Blumenstein Museum, Solothurn).
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