The queen was also eliminated from the Italian courts, and these instead consisted of a King and two knaves, an Custom decks abounded, and suit symbols used in the novelty playing cards from this era include animals, kitchen utensils, and appliances, from frying pans to printers' inkpads!

To establish themselves as a card-manufacturing nation in their own right, the Germans introduced their own suits to replace the Italian ones, and these new suits reflected their interest in rural life: acorns, leaves, hearts, and bells; the latter being hawk-bells and a reference to the popular rural pursuit of falconry. This led to Germany gaining a dominant role in the playing card trade, even exporting decks to Western Europe, which had produced them in the first place! But from there we will make our way to Europe, first to Italy and Spain, then east to Germany, back west to France, and across the channel to England.
£6.00 In fact, the most significant elements that shaped today's deck were produced by the different cultures and countries that playing cards travelled through in order to get to the present day. The reality is that playing cards have undergone a radical transformation since their first beginnings several centuries ago. Only time will tell, but meanwhile you can enjoy a modern deck today, knowing that it has striking similarities with the playing cards of 15th century Europe, and that playing cards have been an integral part of life and leisure across the globe for more than 600 years! The Germanic suits are still used in parts of Europe today, and are indebted to this period of history.But the real contribution of Germany was their methods of printing playing cards. Also in other parts of Spain, the cards were known, since the statutes of the order of cavalry of the Band founded by Don Alfonso XI of Castile in 1331, prohibited the knights from playing cards. So let's head to Europe, to the earliest confirmed reference to playing cards there, which we find in a Latin manuscript written by a German monk in a Swiss monastery.In the manuscript dated 1377, our German monk friend Johannes from Switzerland mentions the appearance of playing cards and several different card games that could be played with them. The true history of playing cards is a long and fascinating journey, one that has been enmeshed with many romantic interpretations over time, not all of which have a historical basis. It is from this era that the custom developed of associating specific court cards with famous names, the more well-known and commonly accepted ones for the Kings being King David (Spades), Alexander the Great (Clubs), Charlemagne (Hearts), and Julius Caesar (Diamonds), representing the four empires of Jews, Greeks, Franks, and Romans. The first version can be based on the fact that the oldest western deck is the Spanish call and that the sticks of the Arab deck were coins, cups, scimitars and canes, which would later evolve into golds, cups, swords and clubs. If correct, it would place the origins of playing cards before 1000AD, and it would see them as originating alongside or even from tile games like dominoes and mahjong. It was also around this time that double-ended court cards became common (to avoid the need to turn the cards, thereby revealing to your opponent that you had court cards in your hand) and the existing full-length designs were adapted to make them double-ended.The Americans are late companions to our historical journey, because for a long time they simply relied on imports from England to meet the demand for playing cards. What will the future hold for the fate of the humble playing card, and what will be the lasting contribution of our own era be to the shape and content of a "standard" deck? But as card playing became more popular, and methods were developed to produce them more cheaply, playing cards became more widely available. Sixteenth century German 'satirical' playing cards Historic card games rule book plus C17th/C18th playing cards At any rate these are still the four suits still found in Italian and Spanish playing cards today, and are sometimes referred to as the Latin suits.The court cards from the late 14th century decks in Italy typically included a mounted king, a seated and crowned queen, plus a knave. Another printing company had already printed decks with indices in 1864 (Saladee's Patent, printed by Samuel Hart), but it was the Consolidated Card Company that patented this design in 1875. But whatever variety was present, slowly disappeared as a result of the industrious efforts of Briton Thomas de la Rue, who was able to reduce the prices of playing cards due to increased output and productivity.


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