{"product_id":"skatspiel-preussisches-doppelbild-vereinigte-stralsunder-spielkarten-fabriken-mit-metall-spielkartenpresse-einzelstuck-1920er-jahre","title":"Vintage Skat Deck – Prussian Pattern, Vereinigte Stralsunder Playing Card Factories, with Metal Card Press, One-of-a-Kind Set – 1920s","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"249\"\u003eAn exceptional collector’s ensemble combining two authentic witnesses of German gaming and industrial history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"251\" data-end=\"533\"\u003eThis set brings together a rare Stralsund Skat deck \u003cstrong data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"354\"\u003e“Feine Deutsche Karte – Preußisches Doppelbild”\u003c\/strong\u003e from the 1920s with an original \u003cstrong data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"430\"\u003emetal playing card press from the 1930s\u003c\/strong\u003e, produced as an advertising gift by the \u003cstrong data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"532\"\u003eGustav Schulze Coal, Coke and Anthracite Works in Dresden\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"535\" data-end=\"947\"\u003eThe card deck was manufactured by the \u003cstrong data-start=\"573\" data-end=\"631\"\u003eVereinigte Stralsunder Spielkarten-Fabriken A.G. 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