SET OF PLAYING CARDS - 1815. Jeu de cartes comiques ou de transformation dit "Jeu du Colonel Athalin", by Louis-Marie-Jean-Baptiste Athalin, etching on steel and brush colors. Complete deck of 52 cards, rare, edition of 50, some of which are kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. - Circa 1880. Incomplete set of 29 "republican" theme cards published by Gallet in Lyon. Representing the Roman (spades), French (hearts), American (clubs) and Swiss (diamonds) republics. - Undated. Unattributed complete deck of 40 comic or transformation cards (initials M and F visible on two of the points of the 8 of diamonds).

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