B. Dondorf GmbH: Neue Klubkarte No.422
The designs are a meld between the standard international pattern and German-style French-suited cards. Elements from various other standard patterns can be detected.
Playing Card manufacture: B. Dondorf (1833-1933), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Dondorf's “Neue Klubkarte No.422” (New Clubcards) were published during the period 1926-1933. The designs, printed in six colours, are a meld between the standard international (Anglo-American) pattern and German-style French-suited cards; so elements from various other standard patterns can be detected in the designs. This attempt to create a new standard pattern unfortunately was not a success; hence the deck is not easy to find today.
Above & Right: Dondorf's “Neue Klubkarte No.422”, published during the period 1926-1933, printed by chromolithography, gold corners, 60mm x 92mm.
Right: the geometrical back design, the Joker and Ace of Hearts with 'Deutsches Reich' tax stamp which was in use in Germany from 1931 to 1936. Images courtesy Barney Townshend.
See also: Dondorf Homepage • Dondorf Spanish Pack • Four Continents, c.1870 • Four Continents Patience • Club Karte • Tarot Microscopique, c.1870 • Gaigel-Karten • Whist No.80 • Whist No.151 / Portuguese German-style deck • Whist No.192 / Shakespeare-Spielkarte • Lenormand Cards • Poker No.140 • Kinder-Karte • Deutsches Luxusbild No.417 • Promotion deck for Saks & Company, New York, c.1930 • Superfine Playing Cards No.1101 • Dondorf patience book
By Barney Townshend
United Kingdom • Member since October 06, 2015
Retired Airline Pilot, interested in: Transformation Playing Cards, Karl Gerich and Elaine Lewis. Secretary of the EPCS. Treasurer of the IPCS.
Activity for B. Dondorf GmbH: Neue Klubkarte No.422
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