Mercedes-Benz Skat
Classy-looking designs by Monika Dostler for a manufacturer of posh cars.
These striking designs have been achieved with the use of a minimum range of colours – red, black and silver-grey. The double-ended courts show car drivers in costumes from around 1900 (the kings with hats or caps, the Queens with headgear to match their fashionable outfits, the Jacks with goggles). On the Aces are various vintage car parts. The backs depict the design of a radiator with the Mercedes star against a chequered background.
Above: Mercedes-Benz Skat designed by Monika Dostler. Printed by A.S.S., Leinfelden, Germany, 1988. 32 cards + 1 extra card in clear plastic box. Size: 59 x 91 mm.
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022 • Contact
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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