EXTREMELY RARE Aufschlagkarten (Tarot Cards) from 1860 by Josef Neumayer and Wilhelm Hendl
These
Fortune Telling Cards were manufactured in Austria by Josef Neumayer and Wilhelm Hendl, with
sets of 32 or 52 cards with captions in seven languages including English,
designed for light-hearted interpretations, hand-colored, c.1860.
The oldest
of the unnumbered Austrian Cartomancy sets contain only 32 cards, like the
32-card decks used by the gypsys, but over time more cards were added
reflecting more of life's situations or states of mind, so there are decks with
32 and 52 cards.
During the 19th century a system of fortune
telling arose in Europe using unnumbered, pictorial cards depicting popular
imagery with subtitles in several languages. These cards continue to be sold
today under various names such as Sehr Feine Aufschlagkarten, Fortune Telling
Cards, Gypsy Fortune Telling, Zigeuner or Biedermeier Cartomancy Cards. Many
seem to have originated in Austria, but they also emanate from Germany and
Hungary.
These oracle cards contain several images
that were originally seen as vignettes in earlier divination games as well as
cartomancy sets devised by Lenormand and her successors, but the whole
repertoire has become a distinctive tradition with unique images and a format
of its own. They are not the same as Le Jeu du Destin or the Parlour Sibyl. The
cards are unnumbered and do not contain playing card insets as the Lenormand
type do. The images, which may serve to facilitate clairvoyance or just for
light-hearted readings, are allegorical and evocative, presented in a popular
style: Hope is a woman with an anchor, Fidelity shows a dog by his master's
grave. Inconstancy in the earlier sets, showing a man and a woman quarrelling,
is replaced with Constancy, an all-seeing eye (Das Auge Gottes / Oko Boží) in
editions by Piatnik published in Vienna and Budapest.
Please
note, we are missing 3 cards as there are only 29 out of 32 cards in this set.
The condition is fair. Please ask all questions before bidding as there are no
refunds allowed.
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