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REPORT OF NATTONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



The pictures on each pair of cards diflcr ia details from each otlier. 



A similar pack of Hexen-karten in the University Museum/ probably 

 made in Niirnberg in the seventeenth or early in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, consists of thirty-two cards printed in colors, comprising twelve 

 cards with Roman numerals, printed in black, from I to XII, and two 

 each of the following cards: 



LEGEND. 



Karr, 



Hex (liexe), 

 Glass, 

 DoJJer, 

 TViirsf, 



DEVICE. 



Fool. 

 Witch. 



Glass. 

 Plato. 

 Sausage. 



Eiulert (come in), ) 

 Ausait (pay up), ) 

 Mtau, Cat. 



Eott, Horse. 



Werda, Sentry. 



rfeift, Parrot. 



The numeral cards are inscribed at the top numero, and below the 

 number are pictures of cities, which, upon comparison, prove to be 

 highly conventionalized copies of the pictures of Italian cities on the 

 cards from Bologna. A very complete account of this game is given 

 by K. A. Bierdimptl,2 who states that in Germany the game has differ- 

 ent names, that of Hexen or "witch" cards being the local name in old 

 Bavaria. The game exists in France under the name of Coucou. 



The following table illustrates the interrelation of the preceding 

 Italian, German, Swedish, and Danish packs: 



1 Cat. No. 15736. 



-Die S;iiuuilun<;' <1<t S))i('lkarten des baierischeu NatioualiuMseuuis, Miiucheu, 1884. 



