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2011 • July

Selected Year: 2011
Selected Month: July
Total Articles: 4,432

Brazil Scenic Aces

Brazil Scenic Aces

C. L. Wüst Scenic Aces for Brazil.

SOIMCA

SOIMCA

SOIMCA - Sociedade Impressora Caxiense - is an important playing card manufacturer in Brazil. It was established by Nelson Soares in Caxias do Sul, in the south of Brazil, by 1955.

Wild Life

Wild Life

World Wide Fund for Nature-India Playing Cards, featuring 53 different colour paintings of a variety of wildlife including birds, butterflies, mammals and reptiles.

Ecuador Turistico

Ecuador Turistico

Naipe Mi Ecuador Turístico souvenir playing cards

Ciudad de Quito

Ciudad de Quito

Pack of souvenir playing cards made in Quito, Ecuador, featuring black & white photographs depicting Ecuador as one of the great nations on Earth

The Big Deal

The Big Deal

In ‘Patia Te Pere - The Big Deal’, Joan Gragg presents a first edition series of 1000 decks in which the characters, themes and patterns from traditional playing cards are replaced by Cook Islands cultural, environmental and societal icons.

Master PW Circular Cards

Master PW Circular Cards

Master PW Circular Playing Cards: roses, columbines, carnations, parrots and hares... everyday objects evoking life and fertility.

Rotxotxo Workshop Inventories

Rotxotxo Workshop Inventories

Rotxotxo Workshop Inventories, Barcelona, 1660-1800.

Playing Cards in Singapore

Playing Cards in Singapore

Playing Cards in Singapore, one of the Four Asian Tigers.

Anonymous

Anonymous

Anonymous Moroccan Playing Cards for Royal Air Maroc airlines and others...

Chaudsoleil Wine

Chaudsoleil Wine

Chaudsoleil Red Wine advertising playing cards from Morocco.

Manufacture of Playing Cards

Manufacture of Playing Cards

Traditionally cardmakers worked in guilds with long apprenticeships under master craftsmen.