Dondorf
Dondorf or B. Dondorf was a luxury playing card company, founded in Frankfurt (German Confederation) in 1833, that produced playing cards for 100 years.[1]
History
The cardmakers were founded in April 1833 by Bernard J. Dondorf (1809–?) who came from a Jewish immigrant family in Frankfurt. He worked for the printers C. Naumann before opening his own business in 1833. Initially this sold equipment for the printing industry as well as stationery and visiting cards, printing using lithographic printing techniques. As chromolithography took off, Dondorf diversified into the playing card business around 1840. Opening a new factory in 1871, Dondorf retired in July 1872, handing the business over to his sons, Carl and Paul, and his son in law, Jacob Fries.[1][2]
Fries departed in 1890 and founder Bernhard Dondorf died in 1902 at the age of 94. In 1906, the firm become a limited liability company, largely in the possession of the Dondorfs. Dondorf had a considerable export market, printing bank notes for Italy and Japan. In the years running up to the First World War, they were the principal, almost the only, maker of playing cards for Denmark, Norway and Sweden.[2]
The war resulted in irrecoverable losses and Germany then hit a period of hyperinflation which decimated the business. In 1929, the firm was sold to Flemming and Wiskott who continued selling cards under the Dondorf name.[2] In 1933, they were bought out by VASS[1] who, however, ceased production of Dondorf's lines. With the rise of Nazism and the consequent oppression of Jews, the family scattered abroad.
References
- ^ a b c Dondorf at WOPC. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ a b c History of B. Dondorf, Frankfurt at dondorf.co.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
External links
- Dondorf Tarot.
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- Banner
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- Court card
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- Pip card
- deuce
- Weli
- Joker
- Nicknames
- Stripped deck
- Talon
- Unicode
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- Lee Asher
- Hubert Auer
- Bryan Berg
- David Blaine
- Derren Brown
- Lewis Cohen
- Dan and Dave
- Thierry Depaulis
- S. W. Erdnase
- Lennart Green
- Richard Harding
- Johann Kaspar Hechtel
- Ricky Jay
- Sekiryo Kaneda
- René Lavand
- Ed Marlo
- Master of the Playing Cards
- John McLeod
- Anton Moser
- Samuel J. Murray
- David Parlett
- Ferdinand Piatnik
- Richard Valentine Pitchford
- Franco Pratesi
- Johann Georg Rauch
- Juan Tamariz
- Howard Thurston
- Charles Troedel
- Dai Vernon
- Fusajiro Yamauchi
organisations
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and cardistry
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- Cardistry-Con
- Cutting
- Double lift
- The Expert at the Card Table
- Herrmann pass
- History of cardistry
- House of cards
- One-way deck
- Palms and grips
- The Phantom of the Card Table
- Second dealing
- Shuffling
- Si Stebbins stack
- Spoke card
- Three-card monte
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