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    Artist

  • Herbert Schümann

    • Title

  • Deck of piquet playing cards owned by Georg Marcus

  • Physical Description

    1 deck (30 cards) : card stock, color ink ; 3 5/8" x 2 3/8" x 3/8", 9 cm x 6 cm x 1 cm, + leather case (4" x 2 3/4" x 3/4")

  • Place of Publication

    between 1920-1938.

  • Summary

    Deck of piquet playing cards. The cards have a blue plaid verso side. They are stored in a zippered leather case that is stamped with a heart, club, ace, and diamond, and with the name of the manufacturer Herbert Schümann, Berlin N. 65. The deck came with a note that Georg Marcus used to play with these cards.

  • Subject

    Card games

  • Medium

    Toys and games; Objects; Playing cards

  • Part Of

    Arnold and Werner A. Stein Collection,, AR 25821

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Biographical/Historical Information

Georg Marcus was born in 1902, the son of Paul and Hedwig Marcus. He married Gerda and had a daughter, Helga, in 1933. The family lived in Leipzig until 1938, when they emigrated to New York. The lived in Kew Gardens, Queens, where Georg worked as a real estate agent until his death in 1965.

Piquet is a French card game played with a 32-card pack. The pack comprises the 7s through to 10s, the face cards, and the aces in each suit. This deck is missing 2 cards.

Herbert Schümann GmbH is a paper manufacturing company headquarters in Stadtallendorf/Hessen, Germany. The company was founded in Berlin in 1920.

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Herbert Schümann: Deck of piquet playing cards owned by Georg Marcus, Leo Baeck Institute, 2023.99.