NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s rediscovers a remarkable survival of a complete set of German engraved silver playing cards signed by Michael Frömmer of Augsburg in 1616 (estimate: $150,000-250,000), which will be offered in the Important Silver sale on October 19. Consigned by a descendant of General Manuel Oribe of Uruguay, and “hidden” in generations of his family since the early 19th century, these cards become the fifth known set of renaissance silver playing cards in existence—and the only complete deck of 52 cards. They are beautifully engraved in the Italian suits of swords, batons, cups, and coins, each with a king, a knight, a knave, and pip cards ace through ten. Silver playing cards were a luxury that would only have been made for a noble collection, and indeed these cards descended in the Spanish Royal family. According to family tradition, Infanta Carlota Joaquina of Spain (1775-1830) gave them to