Waterloo Playing Cards Piatnik

Waterloo Playing Cards Piatnik

The Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons has been making one of the best brands of playing cards in the world since 1824 in Vienna, Austria in the EU. These Waterloo 200th anniversary playing cards, 1815 - 2015, published with WATERLOO 200, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, a defining moment in European history. The armies of both sides, and their leaders and soldiers, are features on every card in rare prints, portraits and dramatic paintings of the ferocity of war.

Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was was fought near Waterloo, a town then located in the Southern Netherlands, now in Belgium. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was finally defeated here on 18 June 1815 by a coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington. The other army was a larger Prussian army under the command of Field Marshal von Blücher. The battle of Waterloo marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

These Waterloo playing cards Piatnik have 54 poker size playing cards made of cardboard with a standard index in 2 corners of the cards and include 1 Joker + 2 Waterloo information cards.

Waterloo Playing Cards Piatnik
© Wiener Spielkartenfabrik Ferd. Piatnik & Sons
Piatnik playing cards since 1824
Piatnik No. 1545
Made in Austria