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Quickie Wheelchairs

Uncut sheet of ‘Quickie’ Wheelchairs Quartet card game, made in Poland 2004

2004 Poland KZWP-Trefl Disability Card Games Quartet Add to Collection

‘Quickie’ Quartet game

detail from uncut sheet of 2 x 36 cards showing ‘Quickie’ wheelchairs designed as a quartet game, printed in Poland by KZWP Trefl, 2004

Above: detail from uncut sheet of 2 x 36 cards showing ‘Quickie’ wheelchairs designed as a quartet game, printed in Poland by KZWP Trefl, 2004. Reverse: white.

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By Simon Wintle

Member since February 01, 1996

Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.


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