Bahlsen Skat
Publicity pack for a German food company, featuring some of their products.
Founded in 1889, Bahlsen is a family-owned German food company producing a range of biscuits and cakes. Four of their snack products are featured here, one per suit. The courts have been drawn in a comic style with the products in the foreground. Like the Aces, they are set against a green background. Bahlsen exports its products to about 55 countries.
Above: Bahlsen Skat printed by A.S.S., Leinfelden, Germany, c1995. 32 cards + 1 extra card (with rules for Skat in German) in clear plastic box. Size: 59 x 91 mm.
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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