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The history of the playing card museum began in 1923 in Altenburg in Thuringia. On the initiative of Julius Benndorf, editor of the Altenburger Skatkalender (pseudonym Benno Dirf), and with the help of Carl Schneider, director of the United Stralsund Playing Card Manufacturers (later ASS), a one-room playing card museum called the Skatheimat (home of Skat), was added to the local history ...
Facsimiles displayed in the Museum of Fournier de Naipes. The Ambraser Hofjagdspiel (Court Hunting Pack of Ambras; sometimes the Ambras falconer cards [1] or the Courtly Hunt Cards [2] [3]) is a pack of cards painted around 1440–1445 and attributed to the engraver Konrad Witz from Basel, Switzerland. [4]
The Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer (French pronunciation: [myze fʁɑ̃sɛ də la kaʁt a ʒwe]) is a museum of playing cards in Paris, France. It is located at 16, rue Auguste Gervais, in the suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux. Nearby is Mairie d'Issy station, the southern terminus of Paris Métro Line 12. The museum is open Wednesdays ...
The Fournier Museum of Playing Cards offers the visitor not only a historic journey, but also a thematic journey showing the development of playing cards, from the 15th century to the present. Besides decks of cards, the centre also exhibits different machines and other objects used for manufacturing playing cards throughout history.
Hofämterspiel ("Courtly Household Cards" [1]), one of the earliest packs of playing cards on record preserved in its entirety with all 48 cards intact, is a major 15th-century medieval handmade deck commissioned by Ladislaus the Posthumous, King of Hungary and Bohemia and Duke of Austria from 1453 to 1457.
The International Playing-Card Society (IPCS) is a non-profit organisation for those interested in playing cards, their design, and their history. While many of its members are collectors of playing cards, they also include historians of playing cards and their uses, particularly card games and their history.
Dondorf had a considerable export market, printing bank notes for Italy and Japan. In the years running up to the First World War, they were the principal, almost the only, maker of playing cards for Denmark, Norway and Sweden. [2] The war resulted in irrecoverable losses and Germany then hit a period of hyperinflation which decimated the business.
The Flemish Hunting Deck, a deck of playing cards titled Hofjaren Jachtpakket in Dutch, originated from Flanders. [2] The set of cards is a complete regular set of playing cards, consisting of four suits with a king, queen, jack and ten pip cards. [1] The appropriate repetition of the symbol on the card indicate its value. [3]