Four wooden matrices, carved for woodcut printing, corresponding to a complete tarot of 78 cards. Probably Northern Italy. 18th century. Measurements: 45 x 27.5 x 3 cm. each. The Fournier Playing Card Museum of Alava informs us that each of the suits, in Italian style, is composed of 10 numeral cards (some with their value in Roman numerals) and 4 figures (with their identification at the bottom). The trump cards, 21, also have their identification at the bottom (except the one corresponding to the 'death', as usual) and the numbering corresponding to each card at the top, also in Roman numerals (except for the madman, 'Le Fou', considered the precedent of the joker, which is unnumbered). Reviewing some decks in the museum's collection to try to identify more easily the model to which our matrices could correspond, they indicate that they have similarities with some tarots called 'Piedmontese' because of the hairy legs of the devil in card XV, or the 'tears' falling from the cloud of card XX.... ), but they mention that the numbering corresponds to the Tarot de Marseille, as indicated by the numbering of card XX, which corresponds to the Judgement, XXI 'Le Monde', and XVI 'La Maison Dieu'. The labels are in French, although this does not necessarily imply that they were made in France, as there are many examples of Italian playing cards from the 18th century with the inscriptions mainly in French (https://i-p-c-s.org/pattern/ps-3.html). This deck therefore has characteristics of both models, which leads us to believe that it is an 18th century Northern Italian tarot deck, which retains many characteristics of the Tarot de Marseille and French labels. We would like to thank Mrs. Edurne Martín Ibarraran of the "Museo Fournier de Naipes de Álava" (Fournier Playing Card Museum of Alava) for her invaluable help in the correct identification and cataloguing of this lot. Bibliography and further information at: - FournierMuseoaBibat.eus - International Playing Card Society https://www.i-p-c-s.org/ - The World of Playing Cards" ( https://www.wopc.co.uk/