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Children’s Card Games (162)

February 12th, 2012 · 5 Comments

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Piatnik, in Vienna, was responsible for this “Black Peter” deck.  Black Peter accompanies St. Nicholas at Christmas; the card game is similar to “Old Maid,” with Peter as the jinx.  He was once represented as an African in colorful silk, but is now usually seen as a chimney sweep.  In this animal themed deck, he’s a black cat.

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(Posted by Doug Skinner)

Tags: Card Games · Ephemera

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Lisa // Feb 13, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    Love that cat!

  • 2 Doug // Feb 13, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    I like the astonished beetle, too. Ovulation!

  • 3 Gail // Mar 14, 2012 at 10:06 pm

    these are so close to the edge….that beetle may be sorry for what he asked for……

  • 4 Alicia // Aug 14, 2012 at 4:59 am

    My brother and I were just talking about playing this game endlessly with our gran. This was the deck she had, and we loved the pictures. Do you have any more?

  • 5 Doug // Aug 14, 2012 at 11:34 am

    I have the whole deck, but just post one or two cards from each game as a sample. The anonymous artists of card games came up with some wonderful graphics…