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Published August 04, 2010 Updated May 28, 2022

Glanz

Non-Standard playing cards manufactured by Joseph Glanz, Vienna, Austria, 1862.

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Joseph Glanz, Vienna, 1862

Joseph Glanz of Vienna (1849-1912) was a leading Austrian manufacturer of fine playing cards. The firm was absorbed by Piatnik in 1912.

Above: very finely engraved Non-Standard French-suited playing cards depicting Turkish and Greek rulers, manufactured by Joseph Glanz, Vienna, Austria, dated 1862 on the stamp on the Ace of Hearts. 52 cards, stencil-coloured, square corners, no indices.

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By Simon Wintle

Member since February 01, 1996

Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.


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