1873 - Three historical card games

Three historical card games the patriotic transformation card game ‘Jeu des Drapeaux (Game of Flags)’, Paris, c. 1815, 32 cards featuring hand-coloured copperplate engravings of French, German, English and Russian soldiers and battles from the Napoleonic Wars; the traditional card symbols are incorporated into the flags in the individual illustrations; also included is Dondorf Piquet No. 105, 36 cards, bearing a German Empire revenue stamp, thirty pfennigs, No. 15, Frankfurt, c. 1905, in its original case; included: ‘Wer das Glück hat, führt die Braut nach Hause’ (‘He who is lucky leads the bride home’), a facsimile of a 19th-century edition by J. Bermann, Vienna, comprising 16 cards and instructions; all complete, in good condition for their age; card dimensions max. approx. 10 x 6.5 cm.