Ferd Piatnik & Sons
1906 Earthquake
Facts, figures, stories and scandals about the 1906 Earthquake published by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
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.
55 Mucha Paintings on Playing Cards
Fully illustrated pack featuring a large selection of Mucha’s works.
Alcatraz: Rules and Regulations Playing Cards
Rules and regulations that guided prison life in America’s most notorious prison.
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
Bohemian Pattern
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by Simon Wintle
The Bohemian Pattern, sometimes called the Prager Pattern, has roots in the 16th century.
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.
