"Spiel der Hoffnung" - Game of Hope

Huck

The Game of Hope presents the original Lenormand deck, as it was once stated by the card researcher Detlev Hoffmann (1972). Hoffmann dated it to c. 1800 and didn't know the producer. A deck of this early type was and still is present in the British Museum.

Two years ago (2012) an advertisement was found, made by the Bieling Verlag in Nuremberg, according which a Johann Kaspar Hechtel had been the author of this deck.The date of this advertisement had been 1799.

Yesterday (23 January 2014) another advertisement was found, according which a deck "Spiel der Hoffnung" was offered in Regensburg (also known as Ratisbon), at 5 August 1798.

TITLE of paper

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Announcement (at end of paper)

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That's one year down, from 1799 to 1798, it happened in Regensburg and a Mich. Emmerling, bookbinder in a Wallerstr. offers some games, between them some divination cards and also a game "Spiel der Hoffnung", this, as it seems, in two different editions, one with French cards and another with German cards, a passage, which likely has to be interpreted "with French and German suits". Or both suits at one card, as it is given in British Museum.

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The "Staats-Relation der neuesten europäischen Nachrichten und Begebenheiten" runs (at least ?) since 1746, this edition is just a Mitteilungsblatt, I would assume, 4 pages printed on one piece of paper. With a single business announcement, just that, what you see. The publisher is given as "Neubauer".

Compare ...
http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=210129

More material to the research ...
http://lenormanddictionary.blogspot.de/p/meet-johann-kaspar-hechtel.html

... and some discussion you will find, when you type "huck helen lenormand" in the most frequented search engine.
 

Alexander Glueck

Research on Lenormand

Hello,

a new publication concerning the early history of the Lenormand deck is in preparation, planned for autumn 2015 or spring 2016.

Best wishes,

Alexander