Standard playing cards (Vereinigte Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten Fabriken A.G., Altenburg, c. 1937, I) (Q15257)

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Q15257

Also known as

Standardkarten (Vereinigte Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten Fabriken A.G., Altenburg, um 1937, II) · PATIENCE No. 171

maker

United Altenburg and Stralsund Playing Card Factories (Altenburg)

card type

standard playing cards

Suit system

French-suited

place of origin

Altenburg

publication date

1937 (circa)

maker's mark

Banderole: Vereinigte Altenburger und Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken A.-G. | Weitaus älteste und grösste rein deutsche Spezialfabrik

Described in

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981) (cat. no. GER 586, Bd. 1, 328)

Collection

Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Library) (inv. GER 586)

Source

A Catalogue of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards in the Yale University Library vol. 1–4 (1981)

Rights status

work in the public domain

Cards

• 
  Hearts-Ace (French)
• 
  Spades-King (French)
• 
  Clubs-King (French)

Tax stamps

At the time of this pack (1937), Altenburg belonged to the territory of Deutsches Reich. In the window 1927 to 1947, the following applied there:

Tax system	Sovereign	valid from	to
Hersteller-Ersatzstempel 1939–1946 (nicht amtlich)	Deutsches Reich	1939	1946

View 1 tax stamp from 1927 to 1947