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Above the bridge of victory by Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtner, Leipzig, 1815.
Above platform by Fortune Telling Industry counter, Leipzig c 1818.
Above Narren-Karte by Christian Heinrich Reuter, Nuremberg, 1860 c.
Above Graf Zeppelin Round the world flight 1930.
Throughout their long history, the quantity and quality of German maps was outstanding card playing caught on quickly in the medieval printers Bavaria and Germany were quick to respond to the request with a prodigious range of production which can now be considered a first example of popular art German packages have been produced with a variety of symbols and costume design freedom more.
Above the archaic German maps Heinrich Hauk, dated 1585 The suit symbols are acorns, bells, birds and flowers and rare book manuscripts Beinecke Library, Yale University sheet GER 249.
The costumes were divided into two colors, green and red the seed of a green suit were acorns, and on the other, let the red suits were, and still are, the hearts of the classic shape and Germans hawk bells varied their seed may be any other people.
Above the archaic German suited playing cards manufactured by Georg Kapfler dated 1611.
Spread probably northward across the Alps, card game reached Basel in 1377 In the same year, the Dominican monk Johannes von Rheinfelden Basel wrote an allegory on the deck cards are mentioned in the Nuremberg archives between the years 1380 and 1384 1392, there are many references to playing cards in the guild books and German cities registers the names of the card makers and card-painters are recorded, many of them women to start most maps were made in the south in cities like Augsburg, Munich, Nuremberg and Ulm during the second half of the fifteenth century, a succession of masterful German engravers practiced their art and playing cards engraved reached a zenith Many these packages have survived valuable as art objects - see during the sixteenth century wood block playing cards have evolved so as miniature burlesque scenes decorated the lower half of each card.
Cards in Germany the first time with several different systems archaic costume involving a variety of objects of everyday including flowers, animals, hunting equipment or emblazoned Gradually standardization has taken place and today the German national costume marks are hearts Herzen Schellen Bells, leaves and Acorns Laub Eicheln in true German package a second Knave is replaced by the Queen, the two rascals being called Obermann and Untermann Ober and Unter shortens, and 2 Daus takes the place of the Ace.
It was not until the late 17th century that packs with French suits were made and in the eighteenth century German card makers have excelled with their imaginative and artistic approach to card design the existence of several German states and their fortunes is reflected in different models still used today in these areas, but as these States became engulfed the whole, so that the cards do the same thing and regional differences disappear adapted German maps are now a minority, and if the English cards standard are not used, then the Berlin model or Northern Germany is the most widespread.
Above playing cards manufactured by I Schenck, Nuremberg, most nineteenth century.
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