German entrepreneur, Franz Xaver Schmid, founded the publishing house in Munich in 1860, which produced toys and cards.

The company was then run as the United Munich Playing Card Factories (Vereinigte Münchener Spielkarten-Fabriken) in 1915.

There, initially under the name FX, an attempt was made to establish its own image as "games for young adults".

[3] Playing cards for popular games such as Skat and Schafkopf are still produced under the brand name of F.X.

The cards are of the Tarot Nouveau pattern, depicting genre scenes, and are produced for the Baden game of Cego.