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Watercolor Joker on a Fleur-de-lis Pack of AGMULLER Cards

I'm having some difficulty dating this Joker even though the back of the Fleur-de-lis card seems to be linked to a classic AGMULLER deck. However, every pack that I have seen has the classic look Joker and nothing close to resembling this almost stained-glass Jester look. It would stand to reason that those 1950s decks are later iterations of this card which could be a throwback look itself, though I'm not sure how long back Jokers go in Switzerland seeing as they only date back to the Civil War era here in America.  

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