"Matadors" ("Spitzen") were not taken into account until after the game. In addition, the game types differed from today's:  Little is known about the early history and origins of point bidding. The first Skat Congress failed in its attempt to found an all-German Skat Association because its participants could not agree on a compromise between suit bidding and point bidding. This suggests that point bidding was already widespread in 1886. In the Skat Rules of the first Skat Congress under §26 point bidding is covered in two sentences:  ""By agreement or local use it may also be agreed that bidding from the Solo onwards (i.e. in the case of hand games) may be based, not the ranking of the contracts, but the number of points to be calculated each time for the individual contract (bidding based on Werth). Here, the regulations in §23, paragraphs 3 to 5 are to be applied analogously."'.[sic]  This rule explains today's suit values (9, 10, 11 and 12), because these were the basic values of Suit Solo games. The next step was to extend point bidding to the other contracts. This meant "inter alia" that the "Tourné" contract no longer made any sense, because its game value was not predictable. In 1967, East Germany issued a special series of postage stamps on the them of German Playing Cards with pictures of the Jack/Unter of the German and Altenburg pattern pack. In 1986, the Deutsche Bundespost issued a special stamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first German Skat Congress. On 5 September 2013, Deutsche Post issued a special 90-cent stamp under the motto of "200 Jahre Skat" ("200 years of Skat"). The design was by graphical artist, Christoph Niemann from Berlin.