Set of 21 Early Fortune Telling Cards with Great Graphics (+ One Extra) carved wooden letter With the crisp angled flap

With the crisp angled flap completing it just right formally when turned up

with some pencil sketching visible under the ink

and this one bridges the gap--an 18th century engraving

and I think must have referred to it often

Set of 21 Early Fortune Telling Cards with Great Graphics (+ One Extra) carved wooden letter With the crisp angled flapI've tried but not found an exact match out there of this set of cards, which I purchased from a good paper dealer in New Hampshire. Clearly a Lenormand sort of fortune telling deck, and perhaps closest in manner to a "Kladderadatsch" pack produced by Frommann & Bnte in Darmstadt, Germany, circa 1875 though on these small cards are just images, which makes them feel a step closer to Teuila fortune telling cards, introduced in 1899. Anyway, I believe