SIX GERMAN HAND-COLOURED FORTUNE-TELLING CARDS

SIX GERMAN HAND-COLOURED FORTUNE-TELLING CARDS

LATE 18TH CENTURY

depicting figures and scenes beneath playing card designs, framed, together with a French pen and ink design for a 'transformation' Ten of Hearts card, mid-19th century, framed (2)

27 x 27cm frame size (max)

Provenance

German Fortune Telling Cards - a note verso states 'Bought Stanley Gibbons 7.79 £40'.

'Transformation' design - paperwork accompanying this items states 'Sothebys, 28 July 1981, lot 189 (part), bought by Stanley Gibbons £450', from whom purchased by the current vendor.