Cartes Imperiales Patterns: A Photographic Archive

A Gallery of Historical and Contemporary Playing Cards


"CARTES IMPERIALES" pattern
First version

INV 2252 BREPOLS c1880
inv2252 | Atlas of Playing Cards
32/32 cards | 90x60mm | DR.82.00
INV 2241 BREPOLS c1905
inv2241 | Atlas of Playing Cards
32/32 cards | 92x61mm | DR.80.70
INV 2438 BREPOLS c1900
inv2438 | Atlas of Playing Cards
52/52 cards | 93x61mm | bronze corners | VZ.81.26
INV 2463 SN c1911 [Rhenania]
inv2463 | Atlas of Playing Cards
52/52 cards | 93x60mm | VZ.81.50
INV 2479 SN c1925 [Wereld]
inv2479 | Atlas of Playing Cards
33/33 cards | 92x59mm | dutch tax stamp 1920-27 | aces of the dutch Antilles | VZ.80.45
...variant
INV 2337 MESMAEKERS c1930
inv2337 | Atlas of Playing Cards
53/53 cards | 88x58mm | original box "Whist. M11" | JM.80.24
"CARTES IMPERIALES" pattern
Second version

INV 2261 DAVELUY c1880
inv2261 | Atlas of Playing Cards
52/52 cards | 89x60mm | HU.81.40
INV 2688 MESMAEKERS c1880 [Franco-Prussian War]
inv2688 | Atlas of Playing Cards
16 cards only [+11 pip cards] | 89x59mm | reassembled deck | DR.81.80
INV 0537 MESMAEKERS ?
inv0537 | Atlas of Playing Cards
53/53 cards | 91x60mm | bronze corners | advert. back "Miss Blanche Virginia Cigarettes"
INV 0536 BREPOLS ?
inv0536 | Atlas of Playing Cards
32/32 cards | 88x58mm | bronze corners | original box "Skat"
...variants
INV 2453 MESMAEKERS c1910-15
inv2453 | Atlas of Playing Cards
53/53 cards | 88x63mm | original box? "Superior #2002" | JM.80.84
INV 0538 MESMAEKERS c1920
inv0538 | Atlas of Playing Cards
33/33 cards | 93x63mm
...reproduction
INV 0539 MESMAEKERS c1880 CARTA MUNDI 1995
inv0539 | Atlas of Playing Cards
54/54 [+2] cards | 91x59mm | original box "Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart" | Jk reproduction from Brepols, c1905