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On the following pages I show some packs from my collection, and I give a short description of the cards.

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If you have corrections, additional information, or any other comments to the descriptions of the cards, I should appreciate if you could send an email to me: peter@endebrock.de.

Other packs from my collection will be added at irregular intervals, but mostly one per month.

Please note: The scans are mine and there is a copyright notice at the bottom of all pages.
If you want to use anything please contact me before doing so.

Geographical pack from France: Lower Saxony	Feb. 2025
Whist cards	Feb. 2010 (rev. Feb. 2025)
Translucent pack (2)	Jan. 2025
Feinste Skatkarte Nr. 175	Sep. 2021 (rev. Jan. 2025)
Translucent pack (1)	Dec. 2024
Whist pack from Itzehoe	Nov. 2024
Whist pack from Bruges	Oct. 2024
Whist pack from Darmstadt	Sep. 2024
Pack with Mecklenburg pattern from Oldenburg	Aug. 2024
Bayerische Karte No. 23 (Bavarian Cards No. 23)	July 2024
Juego de Naipes Comicos	June 2024
Whist pack from Northern Germany	Apr. 2024
Patience from Germany	Mar. 2024
Dondorf's Carte Medicee	Jan. 2017 (rev. Mar. 2024)
Feine Aufschlagkarten Nr. I	Feb. 2024
Los Leones No. 71	Jan. 2024
Luxury cards from Vienna	Dec. 2023
Jeu Louis XV.	Nov. 2023
Animal Tarock from Belgium	Oct. 2023
Feine Spielkarten No. 3	Sep. 2023
Whist pack from Germany	Aug. 2023
Hand-drawn fortune-telling pack	Aug. 2002 (rev. Aug. 2023)
Elfriede Weidenhaus	Apr. 2006 (rev. Aug. 2023)
Hudibras transformation cards	July 2023
Pack of the 'Roi Dame Val' type	June 2023
Cotta's Card Almanac 1811	May 2023
Abdrücke von Silberplatten (Prints from Silver Plates)	Apr. 2023
T'ien-chiu p'ai (Domino Cards)	Mar. 2023
Recreo Infantil (recreation for children)	Feb. 2023
Nr. 240 L'hombre Luxus	Jan. 2023
Sport-Karte (Sports pack)	Nov. 2022
Prince Charles Cards	Oct. 2022
Carte Toscane	Sep. 2022
Bavarian Tarock	Aug. 2022
Spielkarten à la Renaissance (Renaissance Playing-Cards)	July 2022
Adler Karte (Eagle Cards)	July 2022
Trappola from Vienna	June 2022
French secondary-use cards	May 2022
Deutsche-Reichs-Karte (German Empire Cards)	Apr. 2022
Whist pack from Lübeck	May 2020 (rev. Apr. 2022)
Hamburger Karte	Mar. 2022
Guerre Mondial II (First World War pack II)	Feb. 2022
Schafkopf	Jan. 2022
Single-faced Prussian pattern cards	Dec. 2021
Feinste Kavalier-Whist	June 2008 (rev. Dec. 2021)
Kavalierskarte (Cavalier Cards)	Nov. 2021
German Shooting Festival 1884	Sep. 2017 (rev. Nov. 2021)
Deutsche Reichs Karte (German Empire Cards)	Oct. 2021
Naipe Nacional	Aug. 2021
Ahnung und Gegenwart (Foreboding and Present)	July 2021
Allerfeinste Tarok	June 2021
Patience Moyen-Age (Medieval Patience)	May 2021
Unknown 'Hessian' cards	Apr. 2021
Unknown luxury cards	Oct. 2020 (rev. Apr. 2021)
Vanity Fair Playing Cards No. 41	Mar. 2021
Rabouge from Rochlitz	May 2008 (rev. Mar. 2021)
Erotic pack, partially 'transformation style'	July 2000 (rev. Mar. 2021)
Extra feine Stahlstich Karte (Extra fine steel engraving cards)	Feb. 2021
Ovale Salon-Spielkarten, French suit-signs	Jan. 2021
Ovale Salon-Spielkarten, German suit-signs	Jan. 2008 (rev. Jan. 2021)
Tarock from Frankfurt/Main	June 2020 (rev. Jan. 2021)
Green Club Playing Cards	Nov. 2020
Deutsche Trachten Karte	Aug. 2000 (rev. Nov. 2020)
Printing sheet with the Frankfurt pattern	Sep. 2020
Hanafuda (Flower cards)	Aug. 2020
Cego No. 5	July 2020
Feinste Whistkarten in Stahlstich (Finest Whist cards in steel engraving)	June 2004 (rev. June 2020)
Whist pack with Baden-Baden views (2)	Apr. 2020
Neue Deutsche Spielkarte	June 2002 (rev. Apr. 2020)
Whist cards from Hannover	Feb. 2020
Whist cards from Vegesack	Jan. 2020
Whist cards from Lüneburg	Dec. 2019
Fine Whist cards from Hannover	Nov. 2019
Siciliane	Aug. 2018 (rev. Oct. 2019)
Minchiate 'Carte Fine'	Jan. 2005 (rev. Oct. 2019)
Handmade Viennese pattern pack	Aug. 2019
Hunting cards ('Jagdkarte')	July 2019
Casino Patience	May 2019
Baltic Tarock	Apr. 2019
Alice in Wonderland	Mar. 2019
Feine Deutsche Sieges Karte (Fine German Victory Cards)	Feb. 2019
Printing sheet from Stuttgart	Jan. 2019
Russian Patience pack	Dec. 2018
Hyakunin Isshu Uta Karuta	May 2001 (rev. Dec. 2018)
Children's cards from Bavaria	Oct. 2018
Nemzeti Rummy (National Rummy)	Sep. 2018
Single-faced Paris Pattern cards from Hannover	July 2018
Piquet cards from Vienna	June 2018
Whist pack with secondary usage (2)	Apr. 2018
Postcards from the U.S.A.	Feb. 2018
Pep Boys Playing Cards	Dec. 2017
Lot of hand-drawn transformation cards	Oct. 2017
Belgian matchbox labels	Aug. 2017
L'hombre cards from Hannover (2)	July 2017
Skat pack by an unknown maker	June 2017
French miniature cards	May 2017
Feine Whistkarten No. 3 (Fine Whist cards no. 3)	Apr. 2017
Whist cards from Latvia	Mar. 2017
Conjuring cards from Vienna	Feb. 2017
Skat pack with Prussian pattern	Dec. 2016
Doppeldeutsche (Cards with the Tell pattern)	Nov. 2016
German fortune telling pack	Oct. 2016
Handmade pack (Countries of the World)	Sep. 2016
Handmade pack (Costumes)	Sep. 2016
A nice pack for young and old Republicans	June 2016
Whist pack from Weimar	May 2016
Gaigel cards with single-faced Swabian pattern	Aug. 2009 (rev. May 2016)
Kimberley's Royal National Patriotic Playing Cards	Mar. 2016
German-suited cards from Russia ('Trappola')	Feb. 2016
Handmade Pack with Bohemian Pattern	Jan. 2016
Salzburg pattern pack	Dec. 2015
Piquet cards from Latvia	Nov. 2015
Russian 'Rococo' pack	Sep. 2015
Portuguese pack with illustrated Aces	Aug. 2015
Transformation pack Jeanne Hachette	July 2015
Luxury Whist pack from Prague	June 2015
ChuChu cards from Italy	May 2015
Swedish children's cards	Apr. 2015
Danish children's cards	Nov. 2007 (rev. Apr. 2015)
Frankfurt pattern Whist (4)	Mar. 2015
Frankfurt pattern Whist (1)	Sep. 2007 (rev. Mar. 2015)
Naipe 'Casino'	Feb. 2015
Achten Sie auf die Damen ... (Watch the Queens)	Jan. 2015
Wezel & Naumann Reemtsma	Nov. 2014 (rev. Jan. 2015)
Cartes Moyen-Age (Medieval Cards)	Dec. 2014
Computer House of Cards	Oct. 2014
Biermans' Cartes Extra-Fines	Sep. 2014
Children's Patience from Vienna	Aug. 2014
Monarch Bicycles Playing Cards	July 2014
The Stage Playing Cards No. 65x	June 2014
"Renaissance No. 117"	May 2014
Patience pack from Vienna	Mar. 2014
Theatrical Playing Cards	Feb. 2014
German miniature pack	Jan. 2014
Lenormand pack for Kladderadatsch	Dec. 2013
Cartes parisiennes	Nov. 2013
Nerman Patience	Oct. 2013
Feine Kinderkarten No. 1 (Fine Children's cards No. 1)	Sep. 2013
Conjuring pack from Serravalle-Sesia (Italy)	Aug. 2013
Miniature pack from Germany (4)	June 2013
Wiener Ansichten-Tarock (Tarock with Viennese views)	May 2013
Kumi Sugai cards	Apr. 2013
The Allied Armies' Playing Cards	Mar. 2011 (rev. Apr. 2013)
Frankfurt pattern Whist (3)	Mar. 2013
North-German Cards	June 2006 (rev. Mar. 2013)
Design for Werner & Hörnig, Lübeck	Dec. 2012
Nationalitätentarock (Nationalities Tarock)	Nov. 2012
Whist pack from Braunschweig (2)	Oct. 2012
Russian Conjuring Cards	Aug. 2012
Whist pack with Baden-Baden views (1)	July 2012
Osram advertising pack	June 2012
Extrafeine Schwerdter Karte	May 2012
Gaigel cards with double-faced Swabian pattern	Apr. 2012
Frankfurt pattern Whist (2)	Mar. 2012
Olympia-Spielkarte with French suit-signs	Feb. 2011 (rev. Mar. 2012)
Swiss Piquet pack	Feb. 2012
Animal Tarock from Lübeck	Jan. 2012
Piquet pack from Francfort/Main	Dec. 2011
Bavarian Miniature Cards	May 2009 (rev. Dec. 2011)
Poker pack from Glogau	Nov. 2011
Whist pack from Braunschweig (1)	Oct. 2011
Kostümtarock (Fancy Dress Tarock)	Sep. 2011
Luxury pack from Hamburg	Aug. 2011
Fortune-telling pack from Germany	July 2011
Cartolina Postale - Giuoco delle Carte	June 2011
Toy Cards	May 2011
Cartes mignonnes	Apr. 2011
Vaterländische Spielkarten 1915	Feb. 2003 (rev. Mar. 2011)
Olympia-Spielkarte with German suit-signs	Feb. 2011
Sheet from Hildesheim, Germany (?)	Jan. 2011
L'hombre cards from Hannover (1)	Apr. 2010 (rev. Dec. 2010)
Swiss Whist pack	Nov. 2010
'Travel' Patience	Oct. 2010 (rev. Nov. 2010)
Royal Revelers	Sep. 2010
Portuguese Cards	Aug. 2010
Hand-drawn cards from Austria	July 2010
Whist pack from Italy	June 2010
Miniature pack from Uruguay	Mar. 2010
Künstlerjass (Swiss Artist's Jass)	Jan. 2010
Kartenspielereien (Münchener Bilderbogen)	Dec. 2009
Sheet from Austria (?)	Nov. 2009
Deutsch-Österreichische Bündnis-Spielkarte (2)	Oct. 2009
Deutsch-Österreichische Bündnis-Spielkarte (1)	Nov. 2005 (rev. Oct. 2009)
Patience cards from Czechoslovakia	Sep. 2009 (rev. Oct. 2009)
Whist with Italian Aces	June 2009
Neue Deutsche Spielkarte	June 2002 (rev. June 2009)
Frankfurt Riflemen Cards (Frankfurter Schützenkarte)	Apr. 2009
Pictorial Cards (Béatrice, or the Fracas)	Aug. 2001 (rev. Apr. 2009)
Spielkarten in Bromsilber-Photographie	Mar. 2009
Saks Fifth Avenue	Feb. 2009
Wüst's Patience Karten No. 240	Jan. 2009
Neue Schwerter-Karte	May 2005 (rev. Jan. 2009)
Charactères et Vues Suisses (1)	Feb. 2001 (rev. Jan. 2009)
Peters Union Reifen	Dec. 2008
Shakespeare (Goodall)	Oct. 2008
Hand-drawn miniature pack	Sep. 2008
Dondorf's Jägerkarte	Aug. 2008
Vues & Costumes Suisses (2)	July 2008
Vues & Costumes Suisses (1)	July 2001 (rev. July 2008)
Swedish matchbox labels	Apr. 2008
Carte da Giuoco Nazionali	Mar. 2008
James MacKay's cards	Feb. 2008
Poster stamps from Stralsund: Patience No. 186	Dec. 2007
Kinderkarte, fein	Aug. 2007
Feine Whist No. 2	July 2007
SPD propaganda pack 1953	June 2007
Playing-card chromos	May 2007
Nürnberg pattern, narrow cards	Apr. 2007
Harlequin Playing Cards	Mar. 2007
Regentkort	Feb. 2007
Elite No. 80	Jan. 2007
Rabouge No. 9	July 2000 (rev. Jan. 2007)
Rabouge No. 5	Nov. 2006
Extrafine No. 60	Oct. 2006
Costumes Suisses National	Sep. 2006
Mohrendeutsche (Moorish German cards)	Aug. 2006
L'hombre Cards from Naumburg	July 2006
American Playing Cards	May 2006
Nursery Rhymes (2)	Mar. 2006
Nursery Rhymes (1)	Mar. 2006
Superfin Whist Usidenz	Feb. 2006
Demag advertising pack	Jan. 2006
Schwerter Karte	Dec. 2005
Feine Traplir-Karten	Oct. 2005
Hand-drawn transformation cards	Sep. 2005
Portrait Nr. 17 'Preussenkarte' ('Prussia cards')	Aug. 2005
Miniature cards from Austria	July 2005
Spielkarte der Münchner Jugend	Apr. 2005
Standard English Playing-Cards	Mar. 2005
Essberger Cards	Feb. 2005
Artist's Happy Families	Dec. 2004 (rev. Jan. 2005)
Miniature pack from Germany (3)	Nov. 2004
Deutsche Heereskarte	Mar. 2003 (rev. Nov. 2004)
Skatkarte des 20. Jahrhunderts	Oct. 2004
Pack with single-faced Swiss pattern	Aug. 2004
Whist pack from Russia	July 2004
Whist pack from Germany	May 2004
Whist pack from Copenhagen	Apr. 2004
Reichs-Karte	Feb. 2004
Stralsunder Kaiserkarte	Feb. 2004
Pack with Prussian pattern (Stralsund)	Jan. 2004
Whist pack from Goslar	Dec. 2003
Extrafeine Dresdner Schwerdter Karte	Nov. 2003
Trappola (Jemné Spady)	Sep. 2003
Hexenspiel (Vogelspiel)	Aug. 2003
Miniature pack by Wüst	July 2003
Kaffee Piquet	June 2003
Glazed Cards	May 2003
Sport Karte	Apr. 2003
Deutsche Einheitskarte	Nov. 2000 (rev. Feb. 2003)
Französische Spiel-Karte	Jan. 2003
Deutsche Spiel-Karte	Dec. 2002
Deutsche Kriegs Spielkarte	Nov. 2000 (rev. Dec. 2002)
Superfeine Schwerdter Karte	Nov. 2002
Feldherrenkarte	Oct. 2002
Patience pack from Germany	Sep. 2002
Supra Fijne Speelkaarten	July 2002
Miniature pack from Germany (2)	May 2002
Miniature pack from Germany (1)	Apr. 2002
Luxury Piquet pack from Leipzig	Mar. 2002
Viking Spillekort No. 11	Feb. 2002
Cotta's Card Almanac for 1806	Jan. 2002
Gaigel playing-cards from Altenburg	Dec. 2001
Vereinigte Staaten Spielkarten	Apr. 2001 (rev. Dec. 2001)
Rixdorf playing-cards	Nov. 2001
Pack with Roman Goddesses	Oct. 2001
Dondorfs Hundertjahrkarte 1833-1933	June 2001 (rev. Oct. 2001)
Whist pack with secondary usage (1)	Sep. 2001
Béatrice ou les Fracas	Aug. 2001
Deutsche Spielkarten No. 301	Mar. 2001
Charactères et Vues Suisses (2)	Feb. 2001
Historic Playing Cards (2)	Jan. 2001
Historic Playing Cards (1)	Jan. 2001
Luxury Whist pack from Prague	Dec. 2000
Deutsche Luftfahrer Spielkarte	Nov. 2000
Naypes Refinos	Oct. 2000
Deutsche Bomben-Karte	Sep. 2000
Luxury Piquet pack from Vienna	Sep. 2000
Dondorf's 'Burgen-Karte'	Sep. 2000
Skat pack with Prussian pattern (Goslar)	Sep. 2000
Pack from Mecklenburg	Aug. 2000
Jeu de l'Union	Aug. 2000
Deutsche Flottenkarte	July 2000
Pack with French suit-signs from Hann. Münden (2)	June 2000
Pack with French suit-signs from Hann. Münden (1)	June 2000
Pack with Saxon pattern from Braunschweig	June 2000
Hand-drawn pack from the First World War	June 2000
The Royal Masonic Playing Cards	June 2000
Geographical pack from France	June 2000
Card Almanac for 1817	June 2000
Miniature pack from Germany	June 2000
Artist's playing-cards from Hannover	June 2000
Children's pack with German suit-signs	June 2000