This is the rating and price for Bohemian Playing Cards. Jubilee Exhibition Cards, Prague: Jan ŠRámek, Circa 1908, & 8 Others, 1908

Description : * Bohemian playing cards. Jubilee Exhibition cards, Prague: Jan Šrámek, circa 1908, the complete deck of 32 colour lithographed playing cards (non-standard suits), comprising 4 suits of 8: toboggans, barrels, African shields, Chinese lamps, each with Daus, single figured king, ober, & unter, and pips 7-10, daus of toboggans with maker's details, 8 of lamps with copyright and logo, maker's stamp, and Austrian tax stamp, a trifle rubbed in places, 8 of lamps faded, unter of tobaggans scuffed and retouched, versos grey checkerboard, square corners, each card 112 x 68 mm, together with: Mythology tarock, Bohemia, Budweis: Alois Machaczek, 1858, a reduced tarot pack of 42 stencil coloured woodcut playing cards, comprising 4 suits of 5 (French suits), each with 1 pip card (red aces & unusually black 6s), and 4 double-ended courts, place of manufacture on jack of clubs, plus 21 double-ended trumps (Roman numerals at each end), and Fool card, trump I with dated maker's stamp and Austrian tax stamp, dusty, some cards slightly rubbed, some minor marks or light soiling, versos green & blue paste marbled, each card 107 x 53 mm, plus: Prague type II Trappola, Prague: Maria Sewera (or Severa), circa 1876, a complete deck of 36 stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (Italian suits), double-ended courts, ace of batons with maker's details, generally a trifle darkened (jack of cups & ace of batons more so), some pale spotting, 7 of swords with previously repaired 1.5 cm closed edge tear, versos brown plaid, each card 107 x 59 mm, with 6 other 20th century Czechoslovakian packs including: Czech Heroes pack with box, F. Piatnik, circa 1935, Patriotic pack with wrapper, F. Piatnik, circa 1950, Proletarian pack, Tvar of Bratislava, circa 1957, a quantity from each pack listed mounted with photo corners onto separate display boards, most encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder contained in plastic bags, the boards 59.5 x 42 cm and smaller QTY: (9) NOTE: Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. First item: Altfahrt, Makers of Playing-Cards in Prague (IPCS Papers #8), p.102, Cary, CZE 16, World Web Playing Cards Museum, WWPCM02133. An unusual pack specially designed and made in a limited edition of 1000 for the 1908 Jubilee Exhibition in Prague, celebrating Emperor Franz Joseph's diamond jubilee. The suit signs relate to the exhibition pavilions. Apparently these are the only playing cards Jan Šrámek ever produced. Second item: previous provenance: Collection of Klaus Reisinger, Collection of David Temperley. This is the pack illustrated in Reisinger, Tarocke, vol.I page 134. Third item: Maria Sewera continued the playing card business when her husband Wenzel died in 1875. She then ran it alone until Anton Kratochvil took over in 1879.
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