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This pack was produced around 1860 by an unknown maker, possibly German.

Like the pack made by Wüst, this is an early souvenir pack: on the Aces are (different) views from Switzerland, and the persons on the court cards again wear costumes from Swiss cantons. In detail, you can see (in the order Ace, King, Queen, Jack):

Clubs:	Cascade et Hôtel du Reichenbach / Chillon et Lac de Genève Neuchâtel / Tessin Schwytz / Genève Uri / Saint-Gall
Spades:	Lausanne / Vevey Berne / Bâle Vaudt / Glaris Schwytz / Argovie
Hearts:	Passage de la Gemmi / Righi Kulm Zug / Schaffhouse Zurich / Valais Appenzell / Grisons
Diamonds:	Lion de Lucerne / Genève Soleure / Thurgovie Fribourg / Lucerne Unterwalden / Berne

The illustrations in this pack show several errors:

• wrong coat-of-arms for Neuchâtel (King of Clubs)
  
• wrong colour of the coat-of-arms for Vaudt (Queen of Spades)
  
• coats-of-arms for Schwytz and Argovie exchanged (Jack of Spades)
  
• instead of the ram in the coat-of-arms for Schaffhouse, a horse is shown (King of Hearts)
  
• wrong colour of the coat-of-arms for Valais (Queen of Hearts)