Object
The deck is a full regular deck consisting of 4 suits including King, Queen, Jack and 10 number cards. The suit is based on hunting equipment consisting of a hunting sling, dog leash, horns and dog collar. This is the only complete set of 15th century regular playing cards. The person shown shows the fashion of the time: short jackets, short-cropped hair, and pointed shoes.
This set was most likely specially made in the south of Holland and Flanders. The set was most likely made between 1470 and 1480. A study of the paper reveals that it was made before 1450. The first of two available watermarks of his originates from France and East Flanders and dates from about 1464 to his 1480 used around the age. The second watermark was used in South Flanders and the northern lowlands from about 1468 to 1479.
The card is in very good condition and shows little or no use.
History
The deck was auctioned on December 12, 1978 at the Hotel Drouot in Paris, France. It was described in an auction catalog as an incomplete set of tarot cards from the 16th century. Harry Kenter, his dealer in Dutch antiques in Amsterdam, paid 8,000 Dutch guilders, believing it to be an old one.
Kentor kept the set for several years, cycling around Amsterdam in his coat pocket, but was later banned by his insurance company. After Kenter could only show the set to others in the bank's security, he decided it was best to auction the set. On December 6, 1983, the deck was sold at Sotheby's in London for $143,000. Kenter was taken to the auction house under police escort. The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased the card set and is now part of the Cloisters Collection.
Facsimiles
In 1995, Piatnik collaborated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a reproduction of the Flemish Hunt Pack as a box set with a booklet known as the Flemish Hunt Pack.
Ambras Court Hunting Game
The Ambras Court Hunting Games, also known as the Ambras Falconry Cards, is a deck of cards drawn around 1440-1445 by the Basel sculptor Conrad his witz. Originally composed of 56 cards, of which he has only 54 remaining, all divided into his four suits, falcons, decoys, hounds, herons and symbols related to hunting. . Each suit contained his 10 pip cards, with 10 represented by banners, similar to many old German playing cards and modern Swiss playing cards. For each suit he has 4 face cards.
Under, Over, Queen, King. It was discovered in the 16th century in the collection of Ambras Castle in Innsbruck, Austria, and is now part of the map collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Stuttgart package
Stuttgart Package or Stuttgart Card
Stuttgart Card Game) is his one of the most valuable collections of the Württemberg State Museum. This is a hunting-themed game of cards, painted on gilded cardboard and made around 1430. He is one of the oldest surviving playing card sets.
Explanation
49 of his original 52 cards have survived. Cards of 13 ranks he is divided into 4 suits. The stag and hound suits are led by the female face cards (queen, female over, female lower), while the duck and hawk suits are led by the male (king, male over, male lower). The 10 of each suit is represented by a Swiss playing card-like banner. The back is evenly painted with red lead.
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