Liechtenstein'sches Spiel

Informations collected by Huck Meyer:

1440 - 1450 (?): "Liechtensteinsches Spiel", produced at the Oberrhein (eventually Seeschwaben), woodcut-technic. 2 sheets of paper with 16 cards have been found in a book cover (according to Hoffmann). It seems, that this deck had a 5x13-structure (5x14 or even 5 x 15 is not impossible, as the 4th court card might be missing).
Hoffmann relates to Schreiber, who dated this deck cause of arguments of the clothing to the time of 1465. Hoffmann accepts this, but states, that the motifs might be from this time, but that the printing is of younger date. Hoffmann doesn't give any information about the book cover in which these papers have been found. Segeth dates without comments the deck at 1440/1450. 

5 suits: the common 4 Italian suits (in a varified form, polo sticks instead of batons - similar to the Mamelucks cards -, the swords are different from the bowed Italian swords) and the 5th shows shields with  heraldic signs. The use of polosticks in Europe is also documented by another sheet of low quality in 15th century.

3 court cards (a 4th or 5th court card is eventually missing), King, Ober and Unter, however, 2 of the Unter are females, one of them is a nude. Another Unter is an urinating Fool in contrast to a drinking Ober (perhaps it is the first nude and the first known Fool on a card deck). Mixings of two female and two male pages are also known from the Minchiate. 

10,5 x 7,7 mm - The both papers were bought in 1871 by the collection Rothschild from a Dr. Roth. They are located at Paris, Musee de Louvre, Coll. Rothschild, Inv.-Nr. 3806 LR.

Swords
Ober		 Polosticks
Ober		 Cups
Ober		 Coins
Ober
Swords
Unter		 Polosticks
Unter		 Cups
Unter		 Coins
Unter
Coins
King		 Cups
King 		Polosticks
King		 Swords
King
Shields
Ace		 Shields
Unter		 Shields
Ober		 Shields
King