These cards come from a Spanish-suited pack printed by A. Camoin et Cie of Marseille around 1900. The suits are the Spanish ones: coins, cups, swords and clubs, and each suit runs from one to seven before the court cards, which are numbered 10, 11 and 12. The pips are drawn in the old Spanish manner, with knotted clubs and swords hung with flowers. The four of coins carries a lion on a shield at its center, and the five of coins a lion before a castle.
By 1878 the Camoin house was the only cardmaker left in Marseille. It also held the woodblocks of Nicolas Conver's Tarot de Marseille of 1760, the pattern behind the French occult tarots that came after. Alongside its tarots the factory printed Spanish packs like this one for North Africa, and the firm worked in Marseille and Casablanca until 1971. The Spanish pack is the everyday card game of Spain, North Africa and Latin America. It is also the pack of Spanish cartomancy, in which each of the forty cards has its own meaning, so a fortune-teller lays out the same cards a card player deals.
The pack came to us with thirty-nine of its forty cards; the four of cups was already gone. We are offering the cards singly. Choose the card from the menu; each one is shown in the photographs.
A. CAMOIN ET CIE. [Spanish-suited playing cards.] Marseille: A. Camoin et Cie, [c. 1900]. A single number card from a pack of forty, of which thirty-nine survive.
Physical Description: Playing card printed in color on pasteboard, with rounded corners. Suit signs from two to seven, the index number at head and foot. Back printed with a light blue pattern.
Condition: Toned, with light wear and soiling from use; individual cards vary, as the photographs show. The five of cups has a small dark spot.
These cards come from a Spanish-suited pack printed by A. Camoin et Cie of Marseille around 1900. The suits are the Spanish ones: coins, cups, swords and clubs, and each suit runs from one to seven before the court cards, which are numbered 10, 11 and 12. The pips are drawn in the old Spanish manner, with knotted clubs and swords hung with flowers. The four of coins carries a lion on a shield at its center, and the five of coins a lion before a castle.
By 1878 the Camoin house was the only cardmaker left in Marseille. It also held the woodblocks of Nicolas Conver's Tarot de Marseille of 1760, the pattern behind the French occult tarots that came after. Alongside its tarots the factory printed Spanish packs like this one for North Africa, and the firm worked in Marseille and Casablanca until 1971. The Spanish pack is the everyday card game of Spain, North Africa and Latin America. It is also the pack of Spanish cartomancy, in which each of the forty cards has its own meaning, so a fortune-teller lays out the same cards a card player deals.
The pack came to us with thirty-nine of its forty cards; the four of cups was already gone. We are offering the cards singly. Choose the card from the menu; each one is shown in the photographs.
A. CAMOIN ET CIE. [Spanish-suited playing cards.] Marseille: A. Camoin et Cie, [c. 1900]. A single number card from a pack of forty, of which thirty-nine survive.
Physical Description: Playing card printed in color on pasteboard, with rounded corners. Suit signs from two to seven, the index number at head and foot. Back printed with a light blue pattern.
Condition: Toned, with light wear and soiling from use; individual cards vary, as the photographs show. The five of cups has a small dark spot.
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