Sigma Coatings
Advertising pack for a company supplying marine paints.
Comic designs by Jan Sanders. The courts are caricatures of sea captains, sailors’ molls and rough-looking seamen. All the court card designs are very slightly different at each end of every card. Two types of ship on each of the Aces. The Jokers are illustrated but otherwise unmarked. Blue or red backs. The tuck box carries the slogan “All trumps in ship-protection!”. See the box►
Above: advertising pack for Sigma Coatings with comic designs by Jan Sanders made by Carta Mundi, Turnhout, Belgium, c1971. 52 cards + 2 Jokers + 1 blank card in tuck box. Size: 56 x 87 mm.
By Roddy Somerville
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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