Contributors & Members
The World of Playing Cards connects researchers, collectors, artists and historians worldwide to offer detailed insights into playing cards.
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Simon Wintle
1,485 Articles
Wintle
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I am the founder of The World of Playing Cards (est. 1996), a website dedicated to the history, artistry and cultural significance of playing cards and tarot. Over the years I have researched various areas of the subject, acquired and traded collections and contributed as a committee member of the IPCS and graphics editor of The Playing-Card journa...    |
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Rex Pitts (1940-2021)
775 Articles
Pitts
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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 and his book is on the bookshelves of many.
His other interest was non-standard playing cards. He also had collections of
sheet music, music CDs, models o...    |
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Roddy Somerville
634 Articles
Somerville
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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 Preside...    |
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Peter Burnett
532 Articles
Burnett
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I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over...    |
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Matt Probert
308 Articles
Probert
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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 Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards.
Seeking more information about various unide...    |
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Adam Wintle
142 Articles
Wintle
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Adam has been involved in developing the site as well as reviewing new decks and conducting research. He is particularly interested in innovation, Kickstarter and East Asian cards. He is a member of the IPCS and webmaster of the EPCS.    |
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Ken Lodge
138 Articles
Lodge
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I'm Ken Lodge and have been collecting playing cards since I was about eighteen months old (1945). I am also a trained academic, so I can observe and analyze reasonably well. I've applied these analytical techniques over a long period of time to the study of playing cards and have managed to assemble a large amount of information abou...    |
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Barney Townshend
130 Articles
Townshend
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Retired Airline Pilot, interested in: Transformation Playing Cards, Karl Gerich and Elaine Lewis. Secretary of the EPCS. Treasurer of the IPCS.    |
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Rod Starling (1936-2023)
94 Articles
Starling
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Rod Starling was one of the founding members of the 52 Plus Joker card collectors club. He authored many articles for the club's quarterly newsletter, Clear the Decks. His collection encompasses both foreign and American decks. Rod also authored a book titled The Art and Pleasures of Playing Cards.    |
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Paul Symons
71 Articles
Symons
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I'm British but I have now lived in the Netherlands for more than 50 years and am still enjoying every minute of it. I started collecting playing cards in the early 1980’s after speaking with my neighbour who was at that time a croupier in a casino. I started with just collecting jokers, but that soon led me to complete packs of cards and ev...    |
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Tony Hall
58 Articles
Hall
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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 currently exceeding 150!
Once interest in the social history of card games was sparked, I bought a woo...    |
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Jon Randall
33 Articles
Randall
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From 6 or 7 years of age I enjoyed playing cards with my family, and still enjoy a variety of games today with various groups and individuals. I contribute my competitive nature to enjoying games … it’s not that I like to win, I dislike losing! I was barely 10 years old when my great Uncle left me a small collection of playing cards and that wa...    |
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Marek Brejcha
26 Articles
Brejcha
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My relationship with cards grew from playing to collecting and transformed into publishing as well. I am part of the team at Counter Clockwise, a small company that publishes traditional card games.    |
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Anthony Lee
19 Articles
Lee
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Visit his blog here►    |
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Ann and John Sings
19 Articles
Sings
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Articles and contributions by Ann & John Sings.    |
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Ian Taylor
18 Articles
Taylor
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I've played card games from the age of three, collecting all things "cards" from 16 and finally started to specialise at 58! Thanks to these wonderful pages and a certain Mr Lodge, my main interest is in British decks, with examples of the English standard pattern in other countries. I am beginning to develop a liking for Belgium and...    |
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Adam West-Watson
16 Articles
West-Watson
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I have been fascinated by playing cards ever since I can remember, and still have several of the card games I had as a child. And although I had accumulated quite a number of packs of various sorts over the years, it wasn't until I was in my 50s that I began collecting in earnest. My tastes are quite varied, and my collection of 800 or so deck...    |
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Albinas Borisevičius
14 Articles
Borisevičius
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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 world. It was a great honor for me to attend the IPCS convention in Munich, where I found many friends-co...    |
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Klaus-Juergen Schultz
14 Articles
Schultz
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From the collection of Klaus-Jürgen Schultz.    |
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John Daniels
12 Articles
Daniels
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Paul Bostock
11 Articles
Bostock
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Paul has been a collector of playing cards since his early teenage years, the mid 1970s. In the last 20 years or so he has specialised in standard English cards and their story. His collection, including many other English Standards, are featured on his website plainbacks.com.
Paul is currently editor of Clear the Decks, the Journal of 52 Plus J...    |
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Alberto Pérez González
11 Articles
González
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I am a researcher and my primary interest lies in playing cards manufactured in Cádiz (not the 'Cádiz' type in general). I have authored several articles in the annual Asescoin magazine 'La Sota'. Among them are: “Madrid’s Playing Cards from the 17th to the 20th Century”; “New Contributions to the Study of Playing Card...    |
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Valentin Krasavin (Валентин Красавин)
11 Articles
Krasavin
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Konrad Hämmerle
10 Articles
Hämmerle
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Konrad Hämmerle is a student and card artist from Vorarlberg, the westernmost region of Austria. He founded his own company with his deck Vorarlberger Büschel: a unique reinterpretation of traditional Jass cards. His deck showcases Vorarlberg’s rich cultural heritage, featuring detailed illustrations of traditional clothing, mythical creatures,...    |
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Amit Benyovits
8 Articles
Benyovits
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Ana Cortez
6 Articles
Cortez
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Ana Cortez is the author of "The Playing Card Oracles, A Source Book for Divination" and "Oracle Alchemy." Daughter of Oracle creator and illustrator C.J. Freeman, she is a self-described misfit, truth seeker, rule breaker, and freak for the supernatural.    |
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Jan Walls
6 Articles
Walls
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I collected playing cards since I was in primary school.    |
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Egoitz Campo Gonzalez
5 Articles
Gonzalez
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Egoitz participates in several sporting groups in the Basque Country area (Spain).    |
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Diane O'Donovan
4 Articles
O'Donovan
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Retired university lecturer. Researcher into the origins of playing cards in Europe, the internal structure of the pack, court cards, the tarot symbols, etc.    |
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Donald Welsh
4 Articles
Welsh
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Roy Hopwood
3 Articles
Hopwood
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I am a 77-year-old retired professional magical entertainer and former occupational health and safety consultant. I was a passive playing card collector for more than 50 years until I moved from Australia to Canada in 2019. Since then I have been moderately active in increasing my eclectic collection to around 735 different decks (packs)    |
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Saskia Jansen
3 Articles
Jansen
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Marc Pavone
3 Articles
Pavone
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Jinny Wintle
3 Articles
Wintle
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Becky Bevan
2 Articles
Bevan
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Sean Comstock
2 Articles
Comstock
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Michael Cooper
2 Articles
Cooper
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Vincent Ellul
2 Articles
Ellul
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Robert S. Lancaster (1958-2019)
2 Articles
Lancaster
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Robert S. Lancaster's first web presence was “The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards”, a site devoted to displaying some of his large collection of decks of playing cards. The site existed from 1996 until 2008 when AOL shut down member websites more →   |
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Andy Pollett
2 Articles
Pollett
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For almost one thousand years, in every part of the world, playing cards have been one of the most common pastimes. As a collectable item, instead, they are indeed less popular.
An amazing number of different varieties exists, surely many more than even the most experienced card players would ever imagine. There are decks with special illustration...   |
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Valentin Zadunaisky
2 Articles
Zadunaisky
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Александр Царёв
2 Articles
Царёв
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Started collecting in 1972 - only Russian cards. Later started travelling and get cards from foreign countries.
Обменивался картами с коллекционерами из других стран. В запасе много русских колод для обмена.   |
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John Edelson
1 Article
Edelson
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John was a working magician in high school (Class of 1976) and needed a few jokers for a trick. He seems to have liked finding the most pleasing jokers and soon, he had a collection. He has about 10,000 different jokers today and has started focusing on old and historically-significant American decks of playing cards.   |
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Lynda Cowling
1 Article
Cowling
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I have a set of unusual vintage miniature cards that have been passed down the Family.  |
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Zachary Fisher
1 Article
Fisher
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I'm Zachary Fisher, a collector of woodcuts.  |
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Alec Gibb
1 Article
Gibb
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I was recently given this set of spanish playing cards, which I'm told belonged to a great uncle of my grandmothers, and were found in a collection of his belongings.  |
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Angela Marsh
1 Article
Marsh
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Katelyn Oakley
1 Article
Oakley
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Felipe da Silveira
1 Article
Silveira
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Vicky Visagie
1 Article
Visagie
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Vicky is a researcher and collector dedicated to the preservation of historical tarot and occult cards. He has been interested in the tarot for many years and collects across many printers and countries to document the breadth of traditions rather than a single school. His work records makers and workshop practices, printing and colouring technique...  |
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Ваня Козлов (Vanya Kozlov)
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I’m Ваня Козлов (Vanya Kozlov), a playing card collector with a taste for bold artwork and unusual themes. My collection here mixes modern Lenormand, contemporary artist decks and 20th-century European packs, from classics to the slightly eccentric.    |
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Martyn
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Alannyë Daeris
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I’m Alannyë Daeris, a Lenormand and oracle reader and the creator of Sinfonia da Lua, where I’ve been writing about cartomancy, symbolism and spiritual guidance for over a decade.    |
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Jacques Bourdens
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Enseignant à la retraite, et amateur de jeux de cartes (belote, bridge, rami, besigue, barbu, whist, etc.), j'en suis venu à constituer une collection de jeux de 52 cartes (environ 1400) essentiellement publicitaires, mais avecquelques jeux plus ou moins remarquables.    |
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Martin Danovski
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In my childhood i played with the jokers of my father. Now I'm a fifty years old I come back to the past time and the passion for the playing cards now become a reality. Lived in France, i started my own collection of 52 + Jokers decks. I'll be glade to swapping or trading with many others collectors like me over the world. Now i have ar...    |
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Timothy Griffin
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A playing card collecting, science fact and fiction loving, muscular dystrophy enduring certified inhabitant of The Universe.    |
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Mia Owen
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linda montanucci
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María Barral
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Victor Jose
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Ibrahim Novruzov
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Tam Bihn
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Bri Govniki
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Mithalesh Agrawal
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Ashley Anderson
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Vincenzo Ferro
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Robin Hemsley
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Simon Rodriguez
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Arianne .G Voyance
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I am Arianne .G, a professional divinatory tarot reader in France for over 15 years.
Passionate about Cartomancy, Cards and Oracles, I created my own tarot for professional use to work with a card game that totally suits me.
My tarot is a mix of the Marseille tarot, the Epinal tarot and the Rider Waite with modernized, more refined and contempo... |
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Adelle
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Alberto
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Gerhard Amon
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Collecting playing cards since 2010. |
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Louis Badet
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Tiana Balchunas
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Andrew Ballard
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Valeria Bandini
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Allen Boudreaux
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Michael Braun
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Kartensammlung abzugeben |
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Max Playing Cards
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Max is a passionate collector and enthusiast in the realm of playing cards, renowned for his presence within the cardistry and tabletop gaming community. He is the creator and editor of the website "Max Playing Cards," where he shares news, reviews, and interviews concerning the art and design of playing cards. Through his online platform... |
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Peg Carr
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jasper chua
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i love to collecting playing cards now I want to have a "PLAYBOY 1980 collector editions" and "X-MEN playing cards"..........
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Emily Cook
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DpWalay
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Mark Hastings
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Gonzague JD
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Dheyrdre Machado
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Gerd Matthes
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Josef Novotný
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Rodney Oli
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OWEN
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I am in my 50's and live in Australia. I started my passion with card games when I used to stay with my grandmother as a child and we would play Bezique. I then became interested in its origins, makers, sets and markers and of course the cards. This then ventured into Whist and other games of that era. Most of my sets have never been played wi... |
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Susannah Powell
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I started collecting playing cards on a trip with my mother to Russia in 1980. We went in the last part of December and were there for the start of the,(very snowy!") new year. Mom wanted to get far away with as much of a distraction as possible because my father had passed away and they had been together since they were children and very much... |
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Németh Péter
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JGW R.W.H.
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Paulina Reinoso
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Sagittarius
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Her Majesty "Privy's Purse" |
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Mário Silva
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Lynn Skelton
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No bio |
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TURGAY HASAN TAŞLICA
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