Arabic
A Moorish Sheet of Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
This article was originally published in “The Playing-Card”, the Journal of the International Playing-Card Society (London), Volume XV, No.4, May 1987.
A. Camoin & Cie, Casablanca & Marseille
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by Simon Wintle
Spanish national pattern by A. Camoin & Cie, Casablanca & Marseille
Algeria
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by Simon Wintle
Spanish suited playing cards produced by B. P. Grimaud (Paris) for Algeria, around 1910.
Anonymous
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by Simon Wintle
Anonymous Moroccan Playing Cards for Royal Air Maroc airlines and others...
Burj Al Arab Jumeirah
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by Matt Probert
Gold plated souvenir playing cards from the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel in Dubai.
Cartes La Gazelle, Casablanca
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by Simon Wintle
Cartes La Gazelle, manufactured by Imprimerie de L’Entente, Casablanca
David Robert
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by Matt Probert
“David Robert” playing cards with artwork after Robert's Sketches in Egypt and Nubia.
Hafez Fortune Telling Cards
Fortune Tellers use the Hafez Cards by interpreting the Hāfez poems printed on the card backs when cards are selected randomly by their consultants.
Iran
Representing Iranian culture and history and intended for a Persian market, these playing cards were designed by V. Romanowski de Boncza, ordered by the Iranian government playing card monopoly at the time and printed by Thomas De la Rue & Co., Ltd, c.1937.
Juego de Naipes Andalusí
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by Simon Wintle
Andalusian playing cards designed by Marifé Montoya Carrillo with booklet by Jorge Lirola Delgado, 2012.
Les Artisans Tunisiens
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by Simon Wintle
“Les Artisans Tunisiens” Jeu de Sept Familles published by Éditions de la Mediterranée, Alpha S.A., Tunis
Mamluk Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Nã'ib, the game of lieutenants... these cards are amongst the earliest Arabic playing cards extant.
Moorish playing cards
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by Simon Wintle
These two uncoloured, uncut sheets of early Moorish playing cards were formerly preserved in the Instituto Municipal de Historia in Barcelona.
Moroccan Bank of Commerce and Industry
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by Simon Wintle
Advertising pack for the Moroccan Bank of Commerce and Industry, 1986
Patience Indien
Karl Gerich's “Patience Indien No.16”, published in 1991, is adapted from Grimaud's “Whist Indienne” (c.1900). The double-ended courts are dressed in Arab garb.
Playing cards in Morocco
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by Simon Wintle
The earliest literary references to playing cards in Europe refer to the game having been introduced by a 'Saracen', and also to Moorish and Damascene varieties of playing card.
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