This educational quartet card game from the 1950s GDR illustrates the historical development of technology, craftsmanship, and everyday life through colorful illustrations. Designed as a learning game, it charmingly demonstrates how tools, professions, and inventions evolved over time – an authentic example of early East German game culture.
Quartet card game – “From Past and Present”
Printed and published by Richard Hauenstein Verlag, Altenburg / Thuringia (GDR)
Dating: 1950s, printing code indicates approx. 1955
Educational quartet about technological and cultural developments
Full-color illustrations in the classic East German textbook style
Card backs: light blue graphic pattern
32 playing cards, complete and color-fresh
Card size: approx. 104 mm × 63 mm
Original yellow telescoping box with colored cover illustration
Game rules printed and attached inside the bottom of the box
Box size: approx. 110 mm × 70 mm × 24 mm
Condition: minor age-related wear (small tear at the thumb notch, slightly bumped inner corner), overall stable and fully usable
Overall a charming and collectible educational game from the early GDR period
The card game has been carefully inspected, cleanly stored, and is offered in the condition described above.
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This is an original one-of-a-kind item.
