A very rare pack from the Holland:
Nullenstien, Lautje van Schotten “Pasquins Windkaart”, Holland, ca. 1720. 51/52 + 2 EC ( lacks 10d), Exc. Engraved and hand colored. This was not the makers name but a mockery and the shop where it was sold was called the “money seeking cock”. The pack is a satire against the system of John Law, inventor of the banknote, who inspired expeditions to Mississippi and the South Seas that ended in economic failure in 1720. The suckers who bought into this scheme just bought “wind”. This pack contains fifty-one cards and two extras; one represents a rooster with the blazon of John Law of Lawrifton and another inscription: "April Kaart of van Momus Naer of Niewofte Mode". All letters are engraved in black, with essence of the characters in these expeditions. Museo de Naipes Fournier pg. 127, #10.