Playing Cards The Great War Piatnik

Playing Cards The Great War Piatnik

The Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons has been making quality playing cards in Vienna, Austria in Europe since 1824. Like these commemorative playing cards - published on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele (1917) - featuring historic photographs and brilliant, evocative posters of the Great War. Produced with In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium in Europe.

The Great War 1914 - 1918
World War I or the First World War, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, was a major global conflict that began in Europe on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918. Referred to by contemporaries as the "Great War", its belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting taking place across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia. All the great powers of the world were involved in World War I and were formed in two conflicting alliances: the Allies (including Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and others) and the Central Powers (Germany, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Italy and Austria-Hungary).

These the Great War playing cards Piatnik have 55 cards in poker size printed in the Austria by Piatnik on card stock. The 1914 - 1918 playing cards have a standard index in 2 corners of the playing cards and include 1 Joker + 1 In Flanders Fields Museum card and 1 info card of the posters and photographs of the Great War.

1914 - 18 Playing Cards The Great War Piatnik
© Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons
Piatnik playing cards since 1824
Published with In Flanders Field Museum, Ypres
Piatnik No. 1476
Made in Austria