Card Games
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A short review of a number of decks that are available commercially, to assist the reader in acquiring period card decks.
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This exhibition explores Asia’s fundamental role in the development and refinement of games. It brings together some of Asia's most significant examples of boards, pieces, and other game playing paraphernalia from museums and private collections worldwide.
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A single establishment might well serve multiple functions. While a single building might serve as a church for the Glory of God and yet at the same time be a hospital to tend to the sick and injured, another multi-purpose establishment might be combination restaurant, bar, gambling den, and brothel. One such establishment has left a curious document, which details various games played and wagers placed within, during the later years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first. These games include Hazard, Basset, High Roll, Quilles, Shove-Groat, Landsquenet, Ranter Go Round, Poch (or Glic), Alquerque A Doz, Queek, and the Game of the Goose.
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A compilation of a number of card games played during the Elizabethan period.
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Master Dafydd ap Gwystl gives a general history of card games, and provides rules for Triomphe Forcée and Primero.
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Links to extant pieces of pre-17th century gaming equipment, as well as depictions of people playing games.
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Master Dafydd ap Gwystl describes the rules to three more card games: Putt, Karnöffel, and Reversis. Putt is a late Elizabethan and Jacobean game favored by card sharks, cheats, and gamblers. Karnöffel is the oldest card game for which we have rules, dating back to 1426. Reversis is late 16th century.
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Timeline Playing Card and Tarot History (1370 - 1800) Decks before and after 1370, mostly Italian & German. Many many great pictures!
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The game of piquet has been played since at least the end of the 15th century. Gretchen Miller (Margaret MacDuibhshithe) provides instructions for the game.
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We have created a pack of playing cards using woodblock printing, stenciling and painting. The court
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card images are mostly based on those found on German playing cards from the 1500s. The pip cards are stenciled with the traditional French suits. |
Earl Dafydd ap Gwystl provides rules for Bassett, Glic/Pochspiel, Landskenechte/Lansquenet, and Swiss Tarot.
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Philip Stubbes started writing around 1581 producing small tracts in which he sharply denounced the manners, pastimes, fashions and culture in England. His major work, The Anatomie of Abuses, was first published in 1583.
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P hilip Stubbes had a gift for keen observatio n. Although his comments should not be considered to reveal mainstream thought or opinions of the time, (even his contempora ries thought him extreme) his virulent attacks on the abuses in fashion and English society provide us with a detailed, colorful and picturesqu e glimpse into the England of Shakespear e's youth. |
Wherein is deciphered, all the conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, how they are effected, & wherin they chiefly consist.
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Cautions to beware of cheating at Cardes and Dice. The detection of the beggerly Art of Alcumistry, & the foppery of foolish cousoning Charmes. All tending to mirth and recreation, especially for those that desire to haue the insight and priuate practise thereof. |
Explore playing cards, their history, design and manufacture, and see many different types of cards from around the world. Includes guidelines for producing small editions of handmade playing cards , a concise history of playing-cards , and articles on a "Moorish" sheet of playing cards , Michael Scot's rebus figure of Juppiter as prototype for the tarot pack's Magus/Bateleur , and early card-packs and the arcana , as well as a good playing card bibliography .
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Last listing added: 02/07/09
Listings: 15 (21 counting subcategories)
Regular: 15
Last listing added: 02/07/09