Which deck of hungarian playing cards is this?

fairielf

Yellow acorns, green leaves, the typical red hearts and golden bells are the surprising symbols of the hungarian playing cards which substitute for the universally known spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs.
I consider that cartomancy is the first step taken into the introduction of divination. In my place, almost every person knows some meanings of the normal playing cards and, as for my case, my grandmother taught me some of the craft.
Hungarian playing cards are quite different (and a little more fancy, I confess) from the typical 24 spread of playing cards with the ordinary diamonds, clubs, hearts and spades. They have pictures too and, baring in mind the 32 cards and the abundance of combinations, I can describe them a little more challenging and detailed.

My utmost dilemma is the recognition of the following Hungarian playing cards deck. They have brown covers (with something written on them), while their images are each encircled by a border. These are some link with a bunch of screenshots :D. Thank you, and I hope that someone uses these for fortune telling too!
http://imageshack.com/a/img845/8028/uzzs.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img855/382/imo8.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img37/8452/8pg.png
 

gregory

Where did you see them ?
 

LadyMarian

There are a lot of decks out there that are similar to these. Take a look at some museum collections. Here are two websites:

World Web Playing Cards Museum

http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/

and a Russian museum collection that has 1426 decks.

http://www.21king.ru/en/
 

fairielf

Where did you see them ?

Last year I saw them used in a Ukrainian psychic show (which involved worldwide psychics); "Bitva extrasenzov" season 7.
I like using hungarian playing cards as fortune telling tools, but I am eager to find those designs too :D.
 

fairielf

There are a lot of decks out there that are similar to these. Take a look at some museum collections. Here are two websites:

World Web Playing Cards Museum

http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/

and a Russian museum collection that has 1426 decks.

http://www.21king.ru/en/

Thank you very much for the sources! Unfortunately, after some browsing over there I couldn't find the exact deck. Nevertheless, I sent some e-mails to the playing cards decks museum's owners with the hope of receiving some help. :)
 

dancing_moon

I don't know which deck this is, but Hearts, Bells, Acorns and Leaves are what's called 'German suits' as opposed to the more well-known 'French suits' (Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and Spades).

See a sample here.

Hope this will help to narrow it down or at least find a similar deck. Good luck! :)
 

fairielf

I don't know which deck this is, but Hearts, Bells, Acorns and Leaves are what's called 'German suits' as opposed to the more well-known 'French suits' (Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and Spades).

See a sample here.

Hope this will help to narrow it down or at least find a similar deck. Good luck! :)

Thank you for your help; well, in vain did I try to find the exact style of the deck- it seems to be nonexistent- It must be a limited edition >.< .
 

dancing_moon

I haven't been able to find the exact deck either. However, it seems to belong to the so-called 'Wilhelm Tell pattern', depicting characters from the play/opera of the same name. In your first picture, there's Ober of Hearts, and in the third picture there's Ober of Leaves.

There's a number of decks made in this pattern, but I've found the closest resemblance in the pictures (minus the borders) in the pattern of a Czech deck printed by 'Kolin'. Check out the two Obers in the 1962 edition. At least, you'll get to see the rest of the cards. :)