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Beck Sigmund (*?-✝︎1564)
in Prague (?)

Remark: The existence of his cards in the Prague National Museum doesn’t imply that he was also active in Prague which seems improbable because he is registered as a tenant in Nuremberg in 1561.


Biography Details
1552 dated playing cards
1561 dated playing cards
✝︎1564 in Nuremberg

Lit.: Zdeněk Štahlavský, Sigmundt Beck’s Playing-Cards in the Czech National Museum, Journal of the I.P.C.S. Vol. 24, p 2 ff
Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. Leipzig 1907 ff


Sample Cards

Stukeley type
(Národní Muzeum, Prague (National Museum H2-186.309-311)


Stukeley

Stukeley type
(Národní Muzeum, Prague (National Museum H2-186.367-396)


Stukeley