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Although divination was increasingly condemned as a pagan practice and formally prohibited by the early Christian Church, many divinatory traditions persisted.

- SCARCITY: 9.2/10

- CONDITION: (Subjective) See pictures

- Historic Centuries Old Fortune Used Condition / Surface Wear / Aged Wear / Fortune Used / Corners Rub wear / Paper loss on 1 card (death) / Age Soiled / Stained / Edge Wear / Abrasions on Back / Highly Acceptable For its Extreme Rarity

- DECK/CARD/QTY: 32/32

- PRINTER: M. Severa’s - Successor

- ENGRAVER: Ant. Kratochvíle

- COUNTRY: Prague

- TYPE: Habsburg Empire Production

- PROVENANCE: Private Collection

- TITLE/SUBJECT: Fortune Telling / Oracle

- PROCESS: Stencil Colour / Hand Brush Paint accents / Pigment Paint

- Back: Tight red-on-ochre micro-check Schachbrett pattern / Karo / Period Back

- STYLE: Multilingual Captions

- YEAR: c1820

- METHOD: Copperplate Line Engraving

- FACTORY: Austrian / Bohemian Austro-Hungarian Empire Era Printing Houses

• TITLE CARD : Freimaurer-Paß or Feuergesellschafts-Karte
• Center symbol:
• • The All-Seeing Eye (Eye of Providence) in a radiant triangle – a classic Masonic symbol
• • OKO BOŽÍ “Eye of God” (Czech)
• • Das Auge Gottes. “The Eye of God” (German)
• Bottom: • Starost. Allandovská “Elder of the Alland Lodge”
• (Alland was the German name for a Masonic lodge in Prague)
• • Westenberger Podwyschrážní the lodge master or officer who issued the set.

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• Some believe that cards drawn in a reading are somehow reflective of the individual's current situation and state of mind, with a meaningful connection that can offer insights... as though there was an organising force behind events, a mystical or a “spiritual” meaning that can be intuited from the layout of the cards.

• These unnumbered, pictorial cards are depicting popular imagery with subtitles in several languages. These cards continue to be sold today under various names such as Sehr Feine Aufschlagkarten, Fortune Telling Cards, Gypsy Fortune Telling, Zigeuner or Biedermeier Cartomancy Cards. Many seem to have originated in Austria, but they also emanate from Germany and Hungary.

• These oracle cards contain several images that were originally seen as vignettes in earlier divination games as well as cartomancy sets devised by Lenormand and her successors, but the whole repertoire has become a distinctive tradition with unique images and a format of its own. They are not the same as Le Jeu du Destin or the Parlour Sibyl. The cards are unnumbered and do not contain playing card insets as the Lenormand type do.

• The images, which may serve to facilitate clairvoyance or just for light-hearted readings, are allegorical and evocative, presented in a popular style: Hope is a woman with an anchor, Fidelity shows a dog by his master's grave. Inconstancy in the earlier sets, showing a man and a woman quarrelling, is replaced with Constancy, an all-seeing eye (Das Auge Gottes / Oko Boží) in editions by Piatnik published in Vienna and Budapest.

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