The “Canasta” version in the Flinders line shows the brand went into the 1950s.
Above: “Flinders” playing cards, Hudson Industries Pty Ltd, c.1935
Above: Captain Matthew Flinders RN (1774–1814) was a distinguished English navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent.
Above: Hudson used either 2 or 4-colour courts.
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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