TALON Österreich-Ungarischer Spielkartenverein

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Tax stamps in Austria

Card makers in the Hapsburg Monarchy

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(the links lead to pages in German)

This website is designed and operated by TALON, the Austro-Hungarian Playing Card Association. The content has so far only been written in German. In order to give international playing card researchers and friends an insight into the variety of topics that can be found here, we have made a few selected articles from our publications available in English here.

The following studies are currently available:

Life and work of selected makers of playing-cards

Aloys Hofmann, Vienna (including an overview of how certain workshops in Vienna were passed on from master to master)
Gottfried Fischer, Moravia (maker of the only known single-headed precursor of the William Tell-pattern)
Paul Löwe, Jacob Frenkel, Vienna (opaque playing-cards)
Carl Hoffer, Vienna (story of a crime)
Constantin Kaulitzky (story of a failed start-up)
Leopold Keim, Vienna (the man who was still making playing cards ten years after his death)
C. Titze & Schinkay, Vienna (the Swiss connection)

History of the playing-card production in selected cities

Eger (Cheb), Bohemia (finally contains the answer to the question that has puzzled researchers for more than 100 years as to who created the "most beautiful Deuce card in Bohemia")
Neuhaus (Jindřichův Hradec), Bohemia
Agram (Zagreb), Croatia (with a connection to Graz/Styria)
Prague, Bohemia (detailed monograph on the production of playing cards from the beginning to the end of the monarchy - caution, large file!)
Tyrnau (Trnava), Slovakia

Some remarkable playing-cards

Two packs of deluxe playing cards with illustrated aces - Croatia and Switzerland (Joseph Bäck, Agram)
Scenic tarot - Castles of Moravia (Gottfried Fischer, Bratislava)
Débardeur-tarot - a previously unknown tarot of the 19^th century? (E. Knepper & Co., Vienna)
Elephants on playing cards - a picture book (various makers)
Menagerie-tarot (Gottfried Fischer, Bratislava)
A strange tarot - hunting scenes combined with views of Plzen/Pilsen (Martin Mischka, Pilsen)

Letzte Änderung:

28.02.2022