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Conrad Wüst was born around 1783. In 1811, he was granted a licence to start up a cardmaking business in Frankfurt that was to last over a century. Initially the company made card products for numerous purposes, but over time the manufacture of playing cards became dominant and Wüst used his connexions with the theatre scene in Frankfurt to create cards incorporating images of well-known ...
On 16 November 1832, the brothers Bernhard and Otto Bechstein, in the residential town of the Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, had been granted permission to manufacture German and French playing cards in the name of the Duchy and the Ducal Saxon Altenburg Playing Card Company (Herzogliche Sächsische Altenburger Concessionierte Spielkartenfabrik) was founded.
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.
This list contains notable people both born in Frankfurt and residents of the ... (1862–1950), ... (1879–1932), entrepreneur whose art collection was looted by ...
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Card games introduced in the 1950s" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of ...
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