French-Suited Playing Cards: A Photographic Archive
A Gallery of Regional and Supra-Regional Playing Cards with Historical and Modern Decks
A Visual Archive of Standard Patterns
FRENCH-SUITED PLAYING CARDS | 2
LAST UPGRADE: 15.08.2026
Selected deck:
INV 2358 | "Sofa-Karte", a German pack made by Frommann
Other conventional patterns
Please note that some minor, or uncertain, patterns (e.g. Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, etc.) are included in their respective countries (part three).
single-headed
double-headed
pattern name
Nuoro pattern[ENDS ∼1965]
Sardinian pattern in the French system.
A pattern of German origins.
Nuoro pattern [1]
Semi-conventional patterns
Selection of decks – all of German origin – with affinities between them ("veiled" queens) and with many cards similar to the patterns shown above.
single-headed
double-headed
pattern name