Unimog UX 100
Cartoons promoting the Unimog UX 100, a small truck produced by Mercedes-Benz.
Unimog is a range of multipurpose tractors, trucks and lorries manufactured in Germany since 1948 (from 1951 under the Mercedes-Benz brand). This promotional pack vaunts the capabilities of the Unimog UX 100 by way of a series of cartoons, giving the vehicle a friendly human face throughout. Not only the double-ended court cards are illustrated; the aces and numeral cards also have small cartoons, resulting in a rearrangement of some of the pips. The ‘real’ truck is shown on the reverse, in orange against a dark blue background.
Above: Unimog UX 100 skat deck made by Berliner Spielkarten GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany, 1996. 32 cards + 1 title/rules card in plastic box. Size: 59 x 90 mm. The skat rules are on the reverse of the title card.
I have a few of these packs available for sale.
Reference
Petri, Dr. Thomas. Braun Band 13: Die Berliner Spielkarten GmbH; 2002. p.108, BS 1996/7.
By Roddy Somerville
Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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