. Chess and playing cards. are Key, Caballo,and Sota : King. •Knight,and Knave. This is thelegitimate Spanish pack, thetens, as is customary, beingsuppressed. According to Willshire, noremains of very old Spanishcards have reached our Hispano-American cardsin the Archives of the Indiesat Seville (No. 96) a re prol >ablythe oldest Spanish cards in ex-istence. Spanish cards are characterized bycertain pecularities evincedby actual examples and historical allusions. Spanish Tarots are un-known, and it is doubtful if such ever existed. All Spanish parks areof the numeral kind. In a leg
. Chess and playing cards. are Key, Caballo,and Sota : King. •Knight,and Knave. This is thelegitimate Spanish pack, thetens, as is customary, beingsuppressed. According to Willshire, noremains of very old Spanishcards have reached our Hispano-American cardsin the Archives of the Indiesat Seville (No. 96) a re prol >ablythe oldest Spanish cards in ex-istence. Spanish cards are characterized bycertain pecularities evincedby actual examples and historical allusions. Spanish Tarots are un-known, and it is doubtful if such ever existed. All Spanish parks areof the numeral kind. In a legitimate Spanish pack there are onlyforty-eight cards instead of fifty-two. There is no Queen among the The early publication of these card-sheets with explanatory notes La intendedby the writer. 3Compounded of amatl, paper, with patolli, a general word for a ganic ofkind, derived from patoa, to plaj a game D. G. Brinton . Igaiu we nave quamk patolli, wood game ehess. L67574, Gift of Dr. G. Brown 226. RKVBB8B OV HI8PAKO-AMEBIC AM UU>. (The Emperor Montezuma.)Impression, 2j by i Inches. M. \M ••. 1From photui^-aph f orig n:il In 93G REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. honors, her place being1 supplied by a Caballero or Caballo. The marksare similar to those of Italy, but the Spanish designs differ from theformer, as do the figures on the coat-cards. While the Italian kingsare seated, the Spanish kings are erect, and their vast mantles aresurcharged with large ornaments, as in the case of the French swords are straight, double-edged rapiers; the batons, kuottybranches of trees, and these knotty branches are placed sometimeshorizontally, sometimes vertically, close to each other, but always soarranged that they are never interlaced in the manner common to thenumeral-cards of the Italian Tarots. 98. Xaipes Cadiz, Spain. Nineteenth in Peru. Pack of forty cards similar to preceding, except that e
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