Apr 15, 2004 - Sale 2002

Sale 2002 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 862
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
NAPOLEONIC WAR PLAYING CARDS (BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON.) Jeu des Batailles du Premier Empire. deck of thirty-six uncolored engraved playing cards, each illustrating a famous battle and two military personalities from the Napoleonic era, with suit sign in upper left. 135x87 mm, each mounted; 1/4 morocco slipcase. France, circa 1814?

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Cary/Keller I, 177 (FRA 268), and III, 207; Vérame, Les Merveilleuses Cartes à Jouer du XIXe Siècle, page 102.