World Cup ’98
World Cup ’98 football team pack for Paradigma Consulting Group, 2000.
Promotional pack celebrating World Cup ’98 football teams for Paradigma Consulting Group, 2000.
Suits represent Argentina, Brazil, France and Cameroon. The reverse has advertising for “Sociedad de Soluciones Paradigma”.
Above: World Cup ’98 football team pack for Paradigma Consulting Group, published by Distigráfica S.R.L., 1998. 40 cards.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator 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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