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Published August 16, 2016 Updated August 02, 2022

BG Bouw Building Company

BG Bouw Dutch Building Company publicity deck manufactured by Carta Mundi, c.1980.

1980 Belgium Netherlands Cartamundi Advertising Safety Add to Collection

BG Bouw Dutch Building Company publicity deck manufactured by Carta Mundi, c.1980. The court cards and four aces are designed in a robust style and portray builders working with various tools and equipment with an underlying Health & Safety message, judging by the unfortunate joker.

BG Bouw Dutch Building Company publicity deck manufactured by Carta Mundi, c.1980 BG Bouw Dutch Building Company publicity deck manufactured by Carta Mundi, c.1980 BG Bouw Dutch Building Company publicity deck manufactured by Carta Mundi, c.1980

Above: BG Bouw Dutch Building Company publicity deck manufactured by Carta Mundi, c.1980. 52 cards + 3 jokers + bridge score table in box.

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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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