Description Piatnik Black Leather Playing Card Box This Piatnik Black Leather Playing Card Box is a fine way to store your favourite playing cards when not in use. The quality leather has a rich black colour, with the four suit symbols debossed into the top of the box and a smart, magnetic closure on the front. The inside of the box is flock lined in black, with two ribbons to assist getting your decks of cards out. The box is big enough to store either bridge or poker sized cards, so is perfect for any card player to keep their winning cards safe. We offer these playing card boxes with a choice of premium quality playing cards. Choose from either our 340 playing cards, decorative Emporium playing cards or our Helios Range Cards. About Piatnik Piatnik’s history began almost 200 years ago in an imperial empire, which is no longer present today. Their story began when their founder Ferdinand Piatnik (1819-1885) took over the map painting business belonging to Anton Moser. At that time, playing cards were hand painted and their production was still a craft. Ferdinand Piatnik had learned this craft in Budapest and in 1824 he started to work in the map painting business in the 7th district of Vienna. He soon renamed the company as Ferdinand Piatnik in Vienna, and when his sons joined the business it was renamed again in 1882 as Ferd Piatnik & Söhne, Vienna. Ferdinand Piatnik developed highly successful and still well-known playing card motifs in a special way. For example, the two-engined Germans with their half-figures from Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell, the Austrian Tarot-Leaf and many Joker and Rummy cards. Piatnik was passionate about card games and he passed this enthusiasm onto his sons. The sons were quite entrepreneurial and very open to technological innovations, and in 1891 they converted the business to modern industrial production and relocated to a different part of Vienna. From there, the business expanded rapidly throughout the Austro-Hungarian empire. Unfortunately the second world war claimed their factories outside of Austria, but their passion for producing playing cards has remained undiminished.
