Antoine Dieudonné c.1850

The Kulturhuef in Grevenmacher is a museum and cultural centre. The museum part is centred round an exhibit about printing, in particular the making of playing cards by different members and generations of the Dieudonné family. The pack shown here was reproduced from an original by Antoine Dieudonné dating from about 1850. The maker’s name appears on a shield on the Jack of Clubs. Many of the court cards are based loosely on those of the Paris pattern (though less so the Jacks). There is enormous and very fine detail when one examines the cards closely. For the reproduction, the cards have been given rounded corners and a plastic coating. See the box►

Above: reproduction of a pack by Antoine Dieudonné, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg, c1850. Printed by Cartamundi, Turnhout, Belgium, for Kulturhuef, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg, 2007. 52 cards + 1 extra card in tuck box. Size: 56 x 87 mm.

• Kulturhuef Museum, Grevenmacher: the playing cards of Jean Dieudonné►

• Very similar playing cards made by J. Müller, Diessenhofen, c.1840-50►