Titanic Playing Cards Piatnik
Piatnik's playing card factory in Vienna, Austria in the EU has been making the best playing cards since 1824. Like these commemorative playing cards by Piatnik featuring iconic images of the greatest of all White Star liners, RMS Titanic, and her sister ships Olympic and Britannic.
The cruise ship the Titanic
The RMS Titanic was the second of three luxury cruise ships from the White Star Line shipping company from England. The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built in Belfast, Northern Ireland by the renowned Harland and Wolff shipyard. This yard built three ocean passenger ships for the White Star Line in the early 20th century the Olympic in 1911, the Titanic in 1912 and the Britannic in 1915. The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on the night of April 14-15, 1912 after the ship hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton in the United Kingdom to New York City in the United States. Of the total of 2,224 persons on the Titanic, 1,522 passengers and crew were killed. The Titanic ship was known as “practically unsinkable”.
The Titanic Historical Society
Established in 1963, The Titanic Historical Society, the original and largest Titanic society in the world, is a major source of Titanic and White Star Line information, with a mission to preserve, the great ship’s history in their Museum, and in special events and publications. The Titanic Museum’s collection in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, USA, was the first permanent exhibition of rare Titanic artifacts and documents donated by survivors.
These Titanic playing cards from Piatnik have 54 cardboard playing cards in poker size with a standard index in 2 corners of the cards and 2 Jokers are included. The Titanic commemorative playing cards are printed in Europe by Piatnik cards.
Titanic Playing Cards Piatnik
© Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons
Piatnik playing cards since 1824
Piatnik No. 1423
Made in Austria in the EU