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Art pack I

Published October 12, 2024 Updated October 12, 2024

Art pack featuring Old Masters, including Bruegel, Vermeer, Titian, Raphael, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Velazquez and many others.

Austria Piatnik Art Gallery

Printed by Piatnik (no. 147715) and published by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, this undated pack (purchased in August 2024 in the Museum) features famous Old Masters, including Bruegel, Vermeer, Titian, Raphael, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Velazquez and many others. The pack contains three jokers, all of which show famous works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder: “The tower of Babel”, “The peasant wedding” and “The hunters in the snow”. The reverse shows the frontage of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Art Pack I published by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, printed by Piatnik Art Pack I published by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, printed by Piatnik Art Pack I published by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, printed by Piatnik

Above: Art Pack I published by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, printed by Piatnik (no. 147715), undated.

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By Peter Burnett

Member since July 27, 2022

I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.

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Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.

Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.


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