Extract from 'World of Playing Cards' : Cards from the area which was formerly the Austro-Hungarian Empire are immensely varied. Some of them have special regional differences and are named accordingly. Just as regional dialects are spoken within different areas, similarly, regional styles of playing cards follow the fashion for certain games, ethnic groups or social classes. The Bohemian pattern, also known as the Prager pattern, shares similarities with other old German-suited patterns, such as the Bavarian and Franconian, and preserves details which have survived from the earliest days of German cardmaking, such as soldiers holding weapons and animal or burlesque vignettes on the numeral cards.

Large Index cards. Colours of suits: Heats Red, Spades Black, Diamonds Blue, Clubs Green.

Each suit with its own coloured suit marks, on a black background.

Odd sized 33 card deck with European suits. German suited. This is the Austrian version of the 'Seasons Pattern'