Contributors & Members
As a collaborative project, The World of Playing Cards brings together a diverse group of contributors from around the world, including researchers, collectors, artists and historians, who share their knowledge and expertise to provide a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in playing cards.
Albinas Borisevičius
I have been collecting cards since 1968, of course, then there were no contacts with world collectors, so my collection was very small. It was only in 1991, when Lithuania declared its independence, that it was possible to have contact with the wo... Read more...
Peter Burnett
Ana Cortez
Tony Hall
I started my interest in card games about 70 years ago, playing cribbage with my grandfather. Collecting card game materials started 50 years or so later, when time permitted. One cribbage board was a memory; two became the start of a collection c... Read more...
Ken Lodge
Rex Pitts (1940-2021)
Rex's main interest was in card games, because, he said, they were cheap and easy to get hold of in his early days of collecting. He is well known for his extensive knowledge of Pepys games... Read more...
Matt Probert
I have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards.
Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Pi... Read more...
Klaus-Jürgen Schultz
Ann and John Sings
Roddy Somerville
Rod Starling
Rod Starling is one of the founding members of the 52 Plus Joker card collectors club. He has written many articles for the club's quarterly newsletter, Clear the Decks. His collection still encompasses both foreign and American decks. Rod has als... Read more...
Paul Symons
Ian Taylor
Barney Townshend
Adam West-Watson
Simon Wintle
Adam Wintle
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