934 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



aud Basioni is the mode in wliicli they are iiiterhiced or coiiiiecfed 

 together in phice of .standing separately or apart. The curved forms, 

 too, of the Spade, or swords, are specially Italian in design. The 

 designs on cards vary in different parts of Italy. Thus in the south, 

 cards with Spanish marks are used, while the Florentine pack bears 

 French suit-marks. Cards are made at the present day in many of 

 the Italian cities. Each maker supplies not only those of the local 

 type, but usually those of other cities. Stencils are still used for some 

 of the cheaper cards.^ 



93. Carte da Giuocare. Playing-Cards.^ Naples/ Italy. 



Forty cards of four suits like the preceding, except that the suit- 

 marks are similar to those on Spanish cards. 



94. Carte da Giuocare. Playing-Cards.^ Florence,-' Italy. 

 Forty cards of four suits like the preceding, except that the cards bear 



French suit- marks. Designated as Carie Romane. 



95. Trappola Cards.*^ Austria. Nineteenth century. 

 Thirty-six cards of four suits, agreeing with the Italian, except that 



the danari are rei)laced with conventional flowers. The three, four, 

 five, and six of numerals are suppressed. The court-cards are Be, 

 Cavallo, and Fante. These cards are remarkable for tbeir length, being 

 5,\r by 2-1^6 inches. 



According to Willshire, there are no marks special to Trappola, it 

 being played with a series of numerals, of which the three, four, five, 

 and six of each suit are suppressed, and as long as this is done it may 

 be played with cards showing no matter what marks of suits. From 

 the circumstances of its being a Venetian game, the original marks ot 

 the suits were naturally the Italian ones.' 



9G. Hispano-American Cards. Reproductions'^ of originals in the 

 Archives of the Indies. Seville, Spain, 

 (rt) Facsimile in color of an uncut sheet, 11 by 17 inches, with wood- 

 block impression of twenty four cards colored in red, blue, and black, 

 2 by 3.^ inches. They represent the court cards of the suits of Copas, 

 Oros, Espadas, and Bastos, and ten numeral or pip-cards of the suit of 

 swords. There are but three court-cards for each suit instead of four, 



^The follo\Ying list of Italian card games is given by Mr. W. W. Story (Roba di 

 Roma, I, p. 160) : BriscoUa, Treseffe, CalahreseUa, Banco-FalUto, Bossa e Neva, Scarac- 

 coccia, Scopa, Spizzica, Faraone, ZeccMnefto, Mfrcanleiu Ficra, La Bazzica, Riiha-Movfe, 

 Uovio-Nero. and La Faura. Descriptions follow of Zecchinetlo, Brincola. Trescite, and 

 CalahreseUa. 



2 Cat. No. 1.5563, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



^Vincenzo Russo. 



■•Cat. No. 15603, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



^ Antonio Poll. 



"Cat. No. 15738, Mus. Arch., Univ. Penn. 



'Similar cards to tliose exhibited are used at the present day in Silesia. 



» Made for the autlior in Madrid through the courtesy of the late Seuor Don Justo 

 Zaragossao 



