Pumuckl quartet game
Quartet game featuring the kobold Pumuckl, creation of the German author Ellis Kaut.
Pumuckl is a small, slightly chubby, red-haired kobold (or sprite) who loves annoying people and playing practical jokes. He causes chaos in the workshop of Master Eder, as shown in set 1. He is the creation of German author Ellis Kaut (1920-2015) and is especially well known in Bavaria where he featured in a children’s TV show. Each set of four cards depicts a different episode from the adventures or mishaps of Pumuckl.
Above: Pumuckl quartet game made by F.X. Schmid, Prien, Germany, c1987. 32 cards + 1 title/rule card in plastic box. Size: 66 x 100 mm. © Buchagentur Mūnchen 1987.
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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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