The International Playing-Card Society PATTERN SHEET 110 Suit System G Other Classification Characteristic features Recommended name: Daus cards: Show antique gods/ goddesses: Double headed Prussian pattern Type I - Acorns - Dionysos/Bakchos, Leaves - with scenic pip cards. Artemis/Diana, Hearts - Athena/Minerva Alternative name: Prussian-Silesian pattern and Bells - Demeter/Ceres. with scenic pip cards. Kings: Each bear two suit-marks beside the Opposite to the common practice the type of head. They show frontal position, the kings this pattern is differentiated according to the of Acorns, Leaves and Hearts wear different configuration of the pip and not of the court crowns, the king of Bells wears a turban. cards. The suit Leaves is dedicated to hunting from Ober to 7. History Obers: Acorns show a pitman in official The Prussian pattern supposedly originated dress, Hearts another huntsman and Bells a at Naumburg a.d.Saale which belonged since noble man smoking a pipe. 1815 (congress of Vienna, where the Unters: Represent simple men of lower kingdom of Saxony had to abandon a great rank, Acorns - a young farmer in Sunday part of its state territory to Prussia) to the attire, Leaves - a hunter’s helper, Hearts - a Prussian province Saxony. Here the card- waiter and Bells -a village innkeeper. maker Christian Theodor Traugott Sutor The pip cards show scenes of everyday life printed several German suited cards with a in part with tongue in cheek. They vary a bit mixture of pictures taken from decks of other between manufacturers. manufacturers with “Biedermeier” motives like hunting scenes and professions. Composition About 1840 a certain combination of single 32 cards: Daus, King, Ober, Unter, X to 7 headed court and pip cards hardened with the for Skat. Very seldom 6s are added. labelling “Deutsche Holzkarte” and has been printed then for the next 20 years as well as Some makers has been copied more or less unchanged by Beside Sutor all major playing card other manufactures like L.v.d. Osten at manufacturers in Germany offered a Stralsund and Lattmann at Goslar. By that Prussian pattern Type I: Vereinigte way it became a sort of standard pattern for Stralsunder Spielkartenfabriken; Alten- this particular region of the kingdom of burger Spielkartenfabrik; F.X. Schmid, Prussia. Munich; Lattmann, Goslar; Ludwig & The successor of Christian Theodor Trau- Schmidt, Halle; J.G. Schulze. Leipzig; gott, his son Otto Theodor Sutor launched Frommann & Bünte and Frommann & 1855/60 a double headed version of this Morian, both Darmstadt; and others. standard pattern which in contrast to other double headed standard patterns with Some references German suits had only the court cards Suma, Wolfgang: The Prussian Pattern, doubled while the pip cards remained The Journal of the PCS Vol III No.3 1975, unchanged and showed still the familiar little p. 1ff; Kohlmann, Theodor and Ra-dau, scenes. After the constitution of the German Sigmar: Das Preußische Bild, Berlin Empire this standard pattern was more and 1978; Kranich Jürgen: Das Preußische more labelled as Prussian or Prussian- Bild 2, Berlin 2007, Radau, Sigmar and Silesian pattern. The last packs of that kind Kranich, Jürgen: Die Spielkartenfabrik have been printed by F.X. Schmid, Munich, Sutor in Naumburg, Berlin 2008. in the 50s of the 20th century. The International Playing-Card Society 10/2017 KST The International Playing-Card Society PATTERN SHEET 110 Suit System G Other Classification Double headed Prussian pattern Type I, court cards. Vereinigte Stralsunder Spielkartenfabriken AG, Stralsund, c. 1880. The International Playing-Card Society 10/2017 KST The International Playing-Card Society PATTERN SHEET 110 Suit System G Other Classification Double headed Prussian pattern Type I, pip cards. Vereinigte Stralsunder Spielkartenfabriken AG, Stralsund, c. 1880. The International Playing-Card Society 10/2017 KST The International Playing-Card Society PATTERN SHEET 110 Suit System G Other Classification Double headed Prussian pattern Type I, pip cards, variations. Row 1, 2: Walter Scharff, Munich; 3, 4: Frommann & Morian, Darmstadt, both c. 1930. The International Playing-Card Society 10/2017 KST .