Description
This is the diamonds suit (aces are in a separate image, link below) of the Four Continents pack of cards by Bernhard Dondorf of Frankfurt aM. (The reverse is printed with DONDORF FRANCFORT.) Each suit sign is assigned to a different continent. Diamonds represent America, clubs represent Africa, spades represent Asia, hearts Europe. The court (picture) cards, jack, queen and king, show various styles for African heads of state. These are Dondorf's Patience Cards No. 27. Below are links to more cards from this patience pack, and also examples from Dondorf's 1895 'Shakespeare' deck: .