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CARTES a JOUER ET TAROTS Collection PORTZER Ancienne Collection MAUREL CARTES A JOUER ET TAROTS Collection PORTZER Ancienne Collection MAUREL — Samedi 7 avril 2018 — Paris Cartes à jouer et Tarots Collection Portzer Ancienne Collection Maurel et divers amateurs Samedi 7 avril 2018 Paris — Salle VV 3, rue Rossini, 75009 Paris 14H — Expositions publiques Vendredi 6 avril de 11h à 18h Samedi 7 avril de 11h à 12h — Intégralité des lots sur www.millon.com Département Expert Sommaire Responsable Expert Le XXe siécle, âge d’or de la carte à jouer ? du département Thierry DEPAULIS par François PORTZER ..................................................p. 4 Pélage de CONIAC [email protected] Port. +33 (0)6 82 83 02 50 Présentera les lots 297 à 399 COLLECTION PORTZER [email protected] Allemagne (Lots 1 à 44) ............................................p. 6 Administratrice de vente Autriche (Lots 45 à 59) ............................................ p. 11 Ludivine PLADEPOUSAUX + 33 (0)1 47 27 95 34 Belgique (Lots 60 à 77) ............................................p. 12 [email protected] Danemark (Lots 78 à 83) .........................................p. 15 Espagne (Lots 84 à 86) ............................................p. 15 Etats-Unis (Lots 87 à 102) ........................................p. 16 France (Lots 103 à 197).............................................p. 18 Inde (Lots 198 à 205) ..............................................p. 29 Italie (Lots 206 à 218) .............................................p. 29 Japon (Lots 219 à 222) .............................................p. 31 LES MARTEAUX Enora Alix Pays-Bas (Lots 223 à 230) ....................................... p. 32 Nathalie Mangeot Alexandre Millon Republique Tcheque (Lots 231 à 236) ....................... p. 32 Mayeul de La Hamayde Royaume-Uni (Lots 237 à 245) ................................ p. 32 Russie (Lots 246 à 252) ...........................................p. 34 Suisse (Lots 253 à 264) ...........................................p. 36 Autres Pays (Lots 265 à 282) ...................................p. 38 MILLON Drouot Livres Et Documentations 19, rue de la Grange Batelière (Lots 283 à 296) .....................................................p. 40 T +33 (0)1 47 27 95 34 F +33 (0) 1 48 00 98 58 Ancienne collection Maurel et divers amateurs ..................................................... p. 41 [email protected] Depuis 1925 E J’ai acheté mon premier jeu, l’Austrian SAUF MENTION CONTRAIRE LE XX SIECLE, AGE D’OR Rococo de Piatnik, au défunt Magasin du TOUS LES JEUX SONT COMPLETS Louvre à Paris en 1967 : il m’a donné l’envie ET EN EXCELLENT ETAT de collectionner les jeux en me faisant Entre parenthèses sont indiquées les comprendre qu’ils n’étaient pas tous DE LA CARTE A JOUER ? références des illustrations consultables conçus sur le modèle du portrait français. Accompagné de mon père, j’ai ensuite dans les cinq ouvrages suivants : Les jeux de cartes antérieurs à 1850 ont de longue date durant mon enfance assidument fréquenté • Beal (George), Playing Cards and their retenu l’attention des érudits et des collectionneurs, ce n’est la boutique de M. Sueur rue de l’Université Story, Londres, 1975 malheureusement pas le cas des jeux plus récents auxquels cette ou les expositions thématiques des grands • Crestin-Billet (Frédérique), La Folie des vente entend rendre hommage. magasins parisiens. Puis, au cours de mes Cartes à jouer, Paris, 2002 voyages, je n’ai jamais manqué de faire • Fournier (Felix Alfaro), Playing Cards l’acquisition de jeux nouveaux, hantant Fournier Museum (vol.I), Vitoria, 1982 En effet le XXe siècle peut à bien des subsiste par pays qu’un seul fabriquant le magasin Stanley Gibbons à Londres à • François (André), Histoire de la Carte à égards apparaître comme celui de l’âge (France Cartes en France, ASS en RFA, la fin des années 70 ou n’hésitant pas en jouer, Paris, 1974 d’or de la carte à jouer. Il commence par Fournier en Espagne, Müller en Suisse, etc..) 1981 à subir de nombreuses heures de bus les magnifiques jeux réalisés à la fin du ce mouvement va prendre de l’ampleur avec pour aller acheter des cartes indiennes • Schulz (Klaus-Jürgen) Stolzenburg (Kay), XIXe par Dondorf à Francfort et Grimaud à le développement de la multinationale belge dans le palais du Maharaja de Sawantwadi Dondorf Spielkarten, Hambourg, 2016 Paris, il se poursuit dans toute l’Europe de Cartamundi fondée à Turnhout en 1970 : au fin fond du Maharastra… J’ai eu ainsi • Tilley (Roger), Cartes à jouer et Tarots, l’Entre-deux-guerres par des jeux influencés cette firme prend en effet successivement l’honneur d’effectuer le 30 septembre 1982 Paris, 1969 par l’Art Nouveau et connaît son apogée le contrôle du cartier suisse AG Müller en la visite du Musée Fournier de Vitoria, alors • Vérame (Jean) (I), Les Merveilleuses Cartes durant les Trente Glorieuses où, tout 1990, du cartier allemand ASS en 2000 ou de encore installé dans l’usine de la fabrique à Jouer du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1989 particulièrement en France, la diversité France Carte en 2014 devenant le poids lourd sous la conduite de son fondateur Alfredo • Vérame (Jean) (II), Sublimes Cartes à des fabricants va permettre de multiples du secteur présent dans cinquante pays. Le Fournier ! Toujours à l’affût de jeux qui me jouer, Paris, 2007 créations originales, faisant parfois appel seul véritable concurrent de ce mastodonte semblaient présenter un intérêt historique à des artistes reconnus comme Sonia est la firme américaine Jarden qui occupe ou esthétique, les catalogues de vente par Delaunay ou Salvator Dali, qui constituent encore 35% du marché mondial avec les correspondance, tout particulièrement le un véritable miroir du siècle. En effet, même marques Fournier en Espagne et USPCC remarquable Cartorama de M. Darquenne, si l’on continue à produire des jeux où les aux Etats-Unis. Le Combinat d’Imprimerie les ventes aux enchères et le développement costumes traditionnels et aristocratiques en Couleurs de Saint-Petersbourg fondé d’Ebay m’ont permis, mes moyens financiers renvoient à un passé mythique et flattent en 1817 a fermé ses portes au début des augmentant, de compléter ma collection l’orgueil national, les cartes à jouer sont plus années 2000, quant à la firme Nintendo au cours des ans et de rassembler 900 jeux que jamais le reflet de leur temps: conflits de Kyoto fondée en 1899 elle a connu la aujourd’hui mis en vente. politiques, décolonisation, libération sexuelle, brillante reconversion que l’on sait dans les émergence de la jeunesse, travail des jeux vidéo au début des années 70. Au total, Après avoir consacré 50 ans à collectionner femmes, industrialisation, autant de thèmes la firme autrichienne Piatnik fondée en 1824 les jeux de cartes, et décidé à céder ma nouveaux dont le dessinateur français James reste désormais le seul cartier historique collection pour me consacrer pleinement Hodges fut l’un des témoins privilégiés. indépendant… Résultat indubitable de ce à mon autre passion, les automobiles mécanisme de concentration : le portrait américaines des années 50, je souhaite Malheureusement, de mon point de vue, anglais, popularisé par le poker et les donc que cette vente puisse permettre de cet âge d’or va connaître un terme avec casinos, est devenu le jeu universel au mieux mettre en valeur et de faire découvrir l’émergence de l’économie mondialisée détriment des jeux régionaux et des couleurs aux amateurs les jeux de cartes du XXe au début du XXIe siècle. Si, déjà après la espagnoles, allemandes ou suisses et, avec siècle qui à mon sens restent encore trop Seconde Guerre Mondiale, s’était opéré la diminution du nombre de cartiers, c’est méconnus et sous-évalués aux yeux des partout un mécanisme de concentration clairement l’originalité et la créativité des collectionneurs. nationale qui avait abouti à ce que ne nouveaux jeux qui a diminué ! François PORTZER 4 CARTES À JOUER ET TAROTS - COLLECTION PORTZER MILLON 5 COLLECTION PORTZER ALLEMAGNE 6 12 - - Club-Karte n°147, jeu fantaisie où Koningin Wilhemina Kaart, jeu 1 les as représentent des monuments représentant des personnages et - célèbres comme le Sphynx ou la des sites des Pays-Bas et de leurs Tarot encyclopédique, jeu inspiré Basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome, 52c, colonies. Publié à l’occasion de d’un tarot publié par Wüst en 1850, Dondorf, 1880 (Fournier 178, François la majorité de la reine Wihelmine 78c, fabriquant et date inconnus. p.129, Schultz 5, Beal 18AB). souveraine du pays de 1890 à 1948, 52c, Wüst, 1898 (Fournier 183). 100/120 € 110/140 € 300/380 € 2 7 2 3 - - 13 Jeu des cantons suisses, jeu « Kinder-Spielkarten » n°25, jeu de - colorié au pochoir où les figures patience où toutes les figures sont Transvaal-Kaart, jeu réalisé à la représentent les cantons suisses et des enfants, 2x54c, Dondorf, 1880 gloire des Boers sud-africains qui les as des paysages helvétiques, sans (Schultz 9, Vérame I p.157). s’opposèrent aux colonisateurs doute l’un des premiers du genre, anglais entre 1899 et 1902, les rois 32c (un coin en moins à la dame de 80/100 € sont des dirigeants afrikaners, les pique et celle de cœur), attribué à reines sont des femmes noires, les Wüst, 1860. valets sont des combattants boers 8 et les as représentent des batailles 600/700 € - et des villes, 32c, Wüst, 1899 (Beal Fynste Java Spielkarten, jeu 5CC). publicitaire pour la Compagnie 3 Gumprich et Strauss de Batavia 500/550 € - (actuelle Jakarta), les rois et reines Comic Deck, version originale du représentent la famille royale d’Orange-Nassau, les valets des 14 jeu à transformation dit de Jeanne 4 10 Hachette,
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