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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => A Cellar of Fine Vintages => Topic started by: shimmering on September 21, 2019, 08:03:04 AM

Title: New edition of classic Swiss Jass cards
Post by: shimmering on September 21, 2019, 08:03:04 AM

I found that someone was making the standard Swiss Jass cards in a classic full figure version. So I ordered some, and I can show you some pictures. Very nice, and unusual to be able to find a new edition of such full figure cards.

These cards were drawn by Jens Riedweg in Switzerland, and this is his site:

https://schweizerjass.ch/en/

The cards are a digitally redone version of a classic old pattern by Jakob Peyer. The cards are also printed in Switzerland. The full figure ones that I got don't have a tuck box, and have a smooth finish, the same sort of cardstock that you will see for say typical Altenburger or Piatnik German-suited cards. You can see he also has other Swiss cards for sale on that site, including the more typical modern double-ended ones. And amazingly, the stamps on the envelope match the cards!

Title: Re: New edition of classic Swiss Jass cards
Post by: Don Boyer on September 22, 2019, 02:21:42 AM

Looks like a pretty cool find, really.  You don't see cards like that much these days.