Austria
48: Ferdinand Piatnik & Sons
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by Ken Lodge
Ferd. Piatnik produced a very large range of cards with many different standard and non-standard patterns. This is a survey of his standard English output.
Adametz, Vienna
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by Simon Wintle
Cards from a 54-card "Austrian Tarock" or "Industrie und Glück Tarock" pack made by Franz Adametz of Vienna, c.1948. This type of pack originated around the middle of the 19th century and was used (and still is) in Austria and Hungary.
Arnold Schönberg
In around 1909 he created three sets of playing cards. His inventiveness was driven by a passion for rules, order and numbers.
Austrian Cartomancy Cards
During the 19th century a system of fortune telling arose in Europe using unnumbered, pictorial cards depicting popular imagery with subtitles in several languages.
Austrian Wine
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by Matt Probert
Skat deck for Austria’s excellent wines, Österreichischer Weinwirtschaftsfonds, c.1965
Baroque No.2118
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by Rod Starling
“Baroque” by Ferd Piatnik & Sons, Vienna, reflecting a bygone era of fashion.
Blue Playing Cards
“Blue Playing Cards” by Piatnik, 1960s, inspired by the Cubism art movement in which objects are analysed and reassembled in abstracted form
Bourgeois Tarot by Piatnik 1987
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by Matt Probert
Piatnik’s ‘Bourgeois Tarot’ in a version published in 1987 with nice quality images, especially the double-ended trump cards.
Cashmere
Bernhard Altmann is from the “The House of Cashmere” and these playing cards honour their best known commodity: the fleece of the graceful horned Cashmere goat.
Cocktail
Aluminium playing cards manufactured by Häusermann United Chemical and Metal Engraving Co., Vienna, c.1925
Cosmopolitan № 2121 playing cards
“Cosmopolitan” № 2121 playing cards designed by Russian artist Valeri Mishin, 1996
Die Neue ÖVP
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by Matt Probert
Promotional deck for the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) printed by Piatnik, 1996.
El Jokey by Piatnik, 1990s
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by Simon Wintle
‘El Jokey’ Spanish-suited pack by Piatnik & Sons, Vienna, 1990s
Fair Play
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by Matt Probert
Fair Play budget brand by Piatnik first appeared c.1950 before disappearing in c.1990.
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