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Martin from Zittau (*?-✝︎?)
active in Prague (c.1543)


Biography Details
1543 mentioned as a maker of playing cards in the Old Town

Remark:
in 1543 he leads a lawsuit (oddly enough, not about cards, but about the delivery of bad onion seed).

Literature:
Bílý P., Nàlezy nejstarších hracích karet v Čechách a na Moravě (od nejstarších dob do r. 1620) Rudolfinská akademie Asociace starožitníků, o. s., 2010/2011
Winter Z., Řemeslnictvo a živnosti 16. věku, 1909, p. 234