TALKS TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY 28th SEPTEMBER
at the Piatnik Factory commencing at 9.00am
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Timings of talks, presenters and subjects
| 9.00am – 10.30am | PRESENTATION OF PAPERS |
| Nathaniel Shockley Winner SYLVIA MANN MEMORIAL LECTURE | Exploring the Italian Origins of the Trappola Deck |
| Wolfgang Altfahrt | Who else? The manufacturers of playing cards in second quarter in the 19th century in Vienna |
| 10.30-10.45 | ~ 15 minute coffee break |
| 10.45 – 12.15 | PRESENTATION OF PAPERS |
| Swamy Donè | Women and cards – a new look at Giovanni Palazzi’s deck of cards |
| Paul Eaton | Gin Rummy & Schnaps Pt 1 & 2 |
| 12.15-13.15 | ~ 60 minute lunch break |
| 13.15 – 14.00 | PRESENTATION OF PAPERS |
| Daniel Grütter | Quo vadis? – The playing card collection of the Museum of All Saints in Schaffhausen. |
| Leon Janssens | Will provide a briefing on a new room at the National Playing Card Museum in Turnhout focussing on the production and finishing of playing cards, and the refinement of paper. |
| 14.00-14.15 | ~ 15 minute coffee break |
| 14.15 – 15.45 | PRESENTATION OF PAPERS |
| Carsten Mintert | 300 years Taxation of Playing Cards in Austria |
| Robert Sedlaczek | The cultural significance of the card games Klabrias and Tartel in the Jewish culture of Vienna around 1900 |