Ferdinand Piatnik
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Ferdinand Piatnik (14 October 1819 - 20 July 1885) was an Austrian-Hungarian card painter and manufacturer.
Born at Ofen, now Budapest, then part of the Austrian Empire, he was educated in Bratislava. He bought an Austrian card company off Anton Moser in 1843 and made it one of the most successful game manufacturing companies in the world. He later married the widow of Anton Moser. After his three sons entered the company in 1882 it was renamed Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne.
He died at Bad Vöslau.
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