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• [ A GREAT PIECE OF SYMBOLIC ART ON PAPER ]

• SCARCITY: 9.1/10 Museum Quality

• CONDITION: (Subjective): Mid Grade++ Surface Soiled / Soft Corners / Nice pigment / overall beautiful Old French history.

• CARD/QTY: 1 Single Card

• PRINTER: Dubois Liege

• Original: Certified Authentic

• Era: 19th Century

• SURFACE: Brush Pigment Paint / Stencil

• COA: Yes

• COUNTRY: France / Paris

• Back: Plain

• SUBJECT: Jack Spades

• PROVENANCE: Private Collection

• Process: Engraved

• TITLE: AZAEL

• SIZE: 53 x 83 mm

• Designer : Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux

• YEAR: 1810-11

FACTS : Napoleons Dream of Power• After the revolution, once Napoleon had assumed power, he wanted to re-design the now outmoded revolutionary cards.

• • Although David gave Napoleon the honor of posing as Cesar for the king of diamonds, Napoleon was not all together happy with the court designs! He then commissioned Gatteaux to come up with a new standard pattern.

HISTORIC FACTS : Incredibly Rare..The first playing cards appeared in Europe at the beginning of the 14th century. However, even as late as the 18th century, they were by no means unified in their style.In France, the pack comprised the four classic suits - spades, diamonds, hearts and clubs that we see on all our current cards today.

More Facts:

• • In France's neighbouring countries it was very different. For example, in Spanish and Italian packs there were cups, coins (gold or silver), clubs and swords, in German packs there were hearts, sleigh bells, acorns and leaves, and Swiss German packs had roses and shields in addition to acorns and bells.

• In France, card designs (and the duties paid on them) differed according to which part of the country they came from. Regional portraits had identical number cards but specific portraits of the kings, queens and knaves depending on the region, whether Paris, Lyons, Provence, Guyenne or Auvergne etc.

• • The French Revolution, with its administrative and fiscal transformations, revived and varied playing card production. In this context, the publishers Jean-Démosthène Dugourc and Urbain Jaume took out a five-year patent in 1791 to create new designs for playing cards. Since all symbols of the monarchy had been banned, kings, queens and knaves were replaced by genii, "freedoms" and "equalities".

• Twelve years later ( Napoleon was then Emperor) , on 13th June 1808, the government commissioned the painter Jacques-Louis David to engrave a unique plate with "an image of such extreme intricacy and finesse of line so as to make counterfeiting difficult but also one which at the same time, through the accuracy of the costumes and the exactitudes of the attributes, met the allegorical goal that the inventor of this game seems to have set himself.

• • "Along with the change of card design , the administration also set increased controls on card manufacture. There were eight steps in the card-making process: firstly, the printing paper was wetted, then printed, then it was combined with other paper to construct card before being glued together. Once the paper had been made into card it was painted, then straightened, then cut and finally sorted.

Jacques-Louis David's designs (completed in 1810) gave new precision to the figures on the picture cards. He kept the traditional kings (Charlemagne, Caesar, Alexander and David) as well as their appropriate queens (Hildegarde, Calpurnia, Statira and Abigail) with historical accuracy and precision.

• • The creation of this new "official" pack design also made possible printing techniques not utilised before, namely stamps made by the medallist Jean-Bertrand Andrieu, which the famous typographer Firmin Didot .

• Certificate of Authenticity COA (included)

This incredibly rare single playing card from France is highly collectible. This museum quality artifact is in collectible condition! The historic card will be protected in a 1/2 inch thick screw down shelf stable protected lucite case ready for display.

This is a true piece of history as each card does tell a story and also proves that owning such a magnificent artifact is truly remarkable! Owning this Gorgeous card is a spectacular example and is one reason why to own such a piece that's authentic.

• The cards were sold in paper wrappers, instead of the boxes that we now have, and therefore got lost and damaged easily.

Now you can own one historic card with pure confidence and having the luxury of displaying a historic treasured time piece that's rich in history!

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