Playing Cards from Australia
Erlenmeyer City Sights
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by Matt Probert
Erlenmeyer City Sights hand-illustrated playing cards by Stephanie Gray, 2015.
Flinders playing cards
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by Simon Wintle
Flinders playing cards manufactured by Hudson Industries Pty Ltd (Australia).
Hudson Industries
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by John Daniels
Hudson Industries Pty Ltd of Carlton in Victoria was first registered as a printing company in 1920. In the 1940s they registered their own distinctive ace of spades and joker.
John Sands
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by John Daniels
John Sands had incorporated the earlier playing card manufacturing businesses of Hudson Industries Pty Ltd and Valentine Publishing Co.
Kalevala
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by Simon Wintle
Kalevala playing cards by Sunish Chabba and Ishan Trivedi inspired by ancient Finnish mythology.
Lonely Planet
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by Matt Probert
Lonely Planet Playing Cards feature amazing images from all over the globe.
Nine Lives Tarot
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by Simon Wintle
Nine Lives Tarot by Annette Abolins represents the artist’s creative and spiritual perspective on life.
On The Cards
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by Simon Wintle
A Motley Pack - transformation playing cards & ‘On The Cards’ book facsimile published by Sunish Chabba, 2019.
Pack of Thieves?
“Pack of Thieves? 52 Port Arthur Lives” playing cards documenting life in an Australian penal settlement.
Qantas
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by Matt Probert
Qantas Airways Limited is the flag carrier of Australia and is the world's third-oldest airline still in operation, having been founded in November 1920.
Queen of Hearts
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by Simon Wintle
“Queen of Hearts” by Josie Callipari, winner of the Brian Tucker Accounting Desert Fantasia Award 2005
Redheads
These unusual and striking playing cards were published sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s by the iconic Australian brand of matches, Bryant & May. Whilst the same court card images are used in each suit, the numeral cards employ matches arranged geometrically instead of the normal pips.
Reed Paper Products
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by John Daniels
Reed Paper Products of Waterloo manufactured playing cards until the late 1970s.
Sands & McDougall
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by Jan Walls
Sands & McDougall, playing card manufacturers, Melbourne, late 1890s-c.1970.
Sands & McDougall Aces & Jokers
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by Jan Walls
Sands & McDougall produced many beautiful Spade Aces and Jokers.
