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Non standard cards have designs that vary from the standard games. Often they are published by companies or cultural institutions for advertising reasons. Also more artists design their own pattern. Sometime the manufacturers issue such cards for their own purpose. It seams that there are enough collectors to buy such decks.
If the Catalan or the Castilian Pattern
was model is not clear.
Without any doubt this is a modification of the Swiss-German Pattern.
Instead of kings there are queens, the Ober became queens and the Under now are amazons.
One card of this deck is already shown in the chapter of the advertising cards.
The brewery Lederer took the Bavaria Pattern as model.
Non standard cards sometime present themselves in a very artistic form.
These cards are from Russia. Apart from writing in Cyrillic letters
you can also read the word "Dynasty" on the box. Perhaps the court cards
of the suits represent dynasties.
In this game not only the court cards were redesigned, also the suit symbols were changed
Theme is the "Honey Barrel" a fairy tale by Lew Ustinow; advertisement for the theatre Altenburg-Gera.
Here the courts are only stylised.
These cards were drawn by the artist Sonia Delaunay.
This card game represents the four elements. But they do not appear as the four suits; they are ranks
(king = earth, queen = water, jack = air and Joker = fire).
Quite funny is this one. The two pictures per card show
different scenes, one before, one after.
Everything that is "in" and can be merchandised will be sold as playing cards.
After Harry Potter also Diddl is available as "Rommé, Canasta, Bridge".
With cartoons of persons of the own party the ÖVP advertises.
Very interesting are these cards of the "Deutfracht Seereederei Rostock".
Historic persons (left: Sir Francis Drake) appear but also legends like
(right: the flying Dutchman or mermaids - middle).
The Michelin-Man "Bibendum" as playing card court.
Advertisement for HILTI fastening techniques. The courts show people
using the special HILTI equipment. The pips are the corresponding bolts.
Nevertheless the indices remain the original suits that do not correspond
with the pictures on the cards.
Advertisement for the Tuscan wine syndicate of the Chianti Classico "Gallo Nero". The cards were designed by the artist Costante Costantini. Most interesting is that this deck has four court cards per suit plus a Joker that is a total of 45 cards (per suit: 1-7, J, R, Q, K, plus Joker).
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