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Playing Cards Wiki
A reference work on historical playing cards — packs, makers, tax stamps and historical geography, linked together and searchable.
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Filter freely by suit system, pattern, card type, theme, country/region/place and date, select packs, and compare the same card across several makers side by side in the comparison grid.
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Makers
People and firms that made playing cards — with period of activity, location and family tree of firms.
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Historical countries, regions and places, sorted by present-day states — with succession chain (merged into).
Tax systems and tax stamps by period of validity and territory — as a dating aid for playing cards.
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By present-day state
- Österreich
- Deutschland
- Ungarn
- Tschechien
- Slowakei
- Polen
- Italien
- Kroatien
- Slowenien
- Ukraine
- Algerien
- Argentinien
- Australien
- Belarus
- Belgien
- Brasilien
- Bulgarien
- Chile
- China
- Dänemark
- Ecuador
- Estland
- Finnland
- Frankreich
- Griechenland
- Indien
- Indonesien
- Irland
- Island
- Israel
- Japan
- Kanada
- Kolumbien
- Lettland
- Libanon
- Litauen
- Luxemburg
- Marokko
- Mexiko
- Mongolei
- Neuseeland
- Niederlande
- Norwegen
- Peru
- Philippinen
- Portugal
- Rumänien
- Russland
- Schweden
- Schweiz
- Serbien
- Spanien
- Südafrika
- Türkei
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Vereinigte Staaten
- Vereinigtes Königreich
- Ägypten
New here? Explains the difference between suit system, pattern and card type — and the other building blocks of the data model.
Museums, libraries, collections
Museums, libraries, archives and private collections from which packs are documented in the wiki.
🔍 Overview map — Museums, libraries and archives on the map.
For experts: special queries
Pre-filled, interactive entry points into the detail and plausibility searches.
- Compare packs in the family tree of makers (S1) — In the comparison grid, expand the family tree mode, enter a maker QID and choose a direction (predecessor / successor / both)
- shows all packs of this maker together with its predecessors and successors in the family tree of firms — combinable with suit system/time/region filters.
- Search tax stamps by tax system (S2) — In the tax stamp advanced search, choose the tax system dropdown
- all stamps of a card tax regime (via the part of chain), combinable with period and region.
- Packs whose stamp date differs from the pack date (S3a) — Packs whose latest year of publication lies outside the validity of the printed tax stamp (too early or too late).
- Packs whose stamp region differs from the pack region (S3b) — Packs whose country of origin does not match the sovereign country of the printed tax system.
Curator tools
Data maintenance and quality lists in the interactive satellite Datenqualität prüfen: they make gaps in the corpus visible; every result is clickable and leads to the display page, where the gap can be fixed.
- Tax stamps without a stamp photo (R1) — Tax stamps for which no stamp photo has yet been added to the wiki.
- Packs with no photo at all (R2a) — Packs for which no photo at all has been recorded.
- Packs that are physically incomplete (R2b) — Packs whose recorded completeness is incomplete (cards are missing from the physical piece).
- Maker attribution without a reference (R3) — Packs with an identified maker whose attribution does not yet carry a reference.
Visible only to registered members.