Do you know someone who loves gaming or needs entertainment to fill the long hours between a tourney and dinner? If so, feel free to purchase a set of reproduction playing cards! Each of our decks comes in its own muslin bag and includes a free handout of instructions for playing early card games, so you can spend hours enjoying gaming the medieval way. Dating to 1588 this 52-card deck is based on one of the most significant works of Jost Amman, a highly prolific artist of the German Renaissance. German printers experimented with a wide range of suit symbols; this deck uses Books, Jars, Printers' Ink Pads and Cups. As was common in German cards, there are no jacks and queens, but rather the German equivalents of an “unter” (“under” with the suit sign at the bottom of the card), an Ober (“over” with the suit sign at the top of the card) and kings on horseback. It also features a female figure as the 10 of each suit. These authentic cards make a fine addition to any medieval game set.
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 05 July, 2007.
