Description
TAROT PLAYING CARDS – FRANKFURT GERMANY
SPIELKARTEN – FABRIK – “GEGRUNDET 1811”
54 CARDS–COMPLETE DECK
The double-ended, French-suited “Encyclopaedic Tarot” or “Bourgeois Tarot” originated with C. L. Wüst of Frankfurt in c.1865. It has scenes of well-to-do European “bourgeois” views of life on the Trumps, in an engraved gothic style and with large Arabic numerals at the top & bottom of each trump. This pack inspired other makers to imitate the pattern or to introduce variations on the theme.