Wimmera Playing Cards
Different scenes from the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, drawn by Colin Daniels.
Artist and designer Colin Daniels created all the brown and cream illustrations especially for this pack. They depict aspects of the Wimmera region in the state of Victoria, renowned for its flora, fauna, and wilderness areas. Grain (hence the back design) and sheep are the main sources of income. This pack was a project of the Horsham Art Gallery Association, raising finance to house the Mack Jost Collection of Australian art. The cards have square corners and were locally printed (not on proper playing-card board). See the sleeve►
Above: Wimmera Playing Cards drawn by Colin Daniels and printed by the Wimmera Mail-Times, Horsham, Victoria, Australia, 1981. 52 cards + 1 Joker + 1 title card + 1 blank card + small booklet in simple sleeve. Size: 60 x 90 mm.
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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