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Sweetule Natural History cards
Small cards featuring natural history subjects, given away with packets of sweet cigarettes.
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Miniature spanish-suited playing cards
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by Simon Wintle
Pack of 48 miniature spanish playing-cards published by C R.
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Uncut Sheet by Johann Jobst Forster
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by Simon Wintle
A proof sheet containing twelve court cards of conventional French type.
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Lend Me Five Shillings
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by Simon Wintle
or “Her Majesty’s Privy Purse” - a merry round-the-table game published by D. Ogilvy.
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Eves Playing Cards
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by Paul Symons
A pack of cards with colour photos of Indian film stars from the era
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Classic Card Games for Kids
A boxed set of playing cards, Happy Families and an alphabet pack with rules for 22 games.
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Le Roi bridge
Reprint of a Piatnik (Budapest) pack of 1927 with Hungarian historical figures and scenic aces.
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Marmite
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by Ian Taylor
Fifty-Four images celebrating a UK savoury spread, that has been around one hundred and twenty two years! It's about time!
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AI Tarot Reading
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by Adam Wintle
Try our AI-powered tarot reader, built to provide you with friendly insights on your most pressing issues.
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Dungeons & Dragons “Curse of Strahd” Tarokka Deck
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by Adam Wintle
Enhance your Dungeons & Dragons game with the Tarokka Deck, a tarot-inspired set of cards that bring mystique to your adventures.
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Dungeons and Dragons Tarot
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by Adam Wintle
This 78-card officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) tarot deck offers a visually appealing variation from traditional tarot designs.
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Tarot of the Everlasting Day - AI Generated Tarot
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by Adam Wintle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated tarot deck produced by Marcus Katz. Is this science fiction or the future of tarot?
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Branded Tarot Decks and Modern Mystic Lifestyle
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by Adam Wintle
Taking a closer look at the rise of media tie-in branded tarot deck and esoteric lifestyle of younger generations.
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Cyberpunk 2077 Tarot Cards
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by Adam Wintle
Polish cartoonist Jakub Rebelka created this set of tarot cards for the Cyberpunk 2077 video game.
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Luxury Collectable Playing Cards
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by Adam Wintle
Luxury packs of cards have been produced since the 15th century, a trend that is very popular among collectors today.
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Cartomancy, Oracle and Divination Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Playing cards are used for fortune-telling, predicting the future or even as a psychological adjunct to folk medicine and therapy. Turning another card illumines the moment and new clarity emerges.
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Tarocchi di Mantegna, c.1465
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by Simon Wintle
The so-called Tarocchi di Mantegna (c.1465) reflect an ideological structure bringing to mind the soul's progress towards perfection.
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Perspectives on the History of Tarot
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by Simon Wintle
Tarot, originally a 15th century card game from Italy, has evolved into a form of personal mysticism and spiritual exploration, offering new visions of expanding awareness.
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Cartas Gitanas
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by Simon Wintle
The designs of these fortune-telling cards are largely taken from nineteenth century Austrian "Rural Scenes" Tarock cards.
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41: A Guide to Dating Playing Cards
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by Ken Lodge
Dating is a particularly tricky but very interesting problem to tackle and there are many pitfalls.
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Austrian Cartomancy Cards
During the 19th century a system of fortune telling arose in Europe using unnumbered, pictorial cards depicting popular imagery with subtitles in several languages.
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Suicide King
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by Simon Wintle
The King of Hearts, holding a sword behind his head, is sometimes nicknamed the “Suicide King”. He can be seen to derive from a late medieval design showing a King wielding a battle axe.
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Rider-Waite Tarot
The Rider Waite Tarot was created at the beginning of the 20th century by Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith.
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Donkey game from Malaysia
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by Anthony Lee
“Donkey” children's card game designed and created by Ooi Yan Hee, manufactured by Hee Trading Co., Malaysia, 1984
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Le Jeu de Marseille
Having deconstructed traditional, bourgeois playing card symbolism they produced new, liberated designs expressing their own beliefs and values. The court cards were persons expressing new, revolutionary ideals.
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Iranian Popular Art
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.
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Hee Trading Co
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by Anthony Lee
Hee Trading Co., Malaysia, manufacture board games, jig-saw puzzles, chess sets, games compendiums as well as card games such as Happy Families, Donkey and Snap.
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Manufacture of Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Traditionally cardmakers worked in guilds with long apprenticeships under master craftsmen.
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Secondary Uses of Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
The unprinted backs of playing cards have led people to use them for secondary purposes such as memorandum slips, bibliographic index cards, for declarations of love, rendezvous notes, emergency money, visiting cards and so on.
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Congress No.606
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by Simon Wintle
Congress Playing Cards were first produced by the Russell & Morgan Company in 1881 as the finest and most expensive of their brands.
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The United States Playing Card Company
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by Simon Wintle
Over the years the pressures of competition and other market forces have led to many smaller manufacturers being taken over by larger ones. The outcome is that the U.S.P.C.C. is now the largest manufacturer in the United States.
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Jaques’ Happy Families
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by Simon Wintle
In 1851 the games manufacturer John Jaques of London (founded in 1795) commissioned a set of drawings from John Tenniel, later Sir John, the chief cartoonist of Punch, for their new game of Happy Families.
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Trevisane pattern
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by Simon Wintle
The double-ended version of the ‘Trevisane’ pattern originated in the early 19th century.
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Chinese Playing Cards 中国纸牌
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by Simon Wintle
The Chinese took their cards with them wherever they travelled and traded in the East, and we find Chinese cards in use not only in the mainland but also in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore, North Borneo and Vietnam.
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The Joker Card
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by Simon Wintle
The 'Joker' is believed to have been invented by American Euchre players who, when modifying the rules sometime during the 1860s, decided that an extra trump card was required.
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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.
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De La Rue
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by Simon Wintle
De La Rue introduced letter-press printing into playing card production and his patent was granted in 1831. He produced his first playing cards in 1832.
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Conjuring and Magic
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by Simon Wintle
The art of mystifying people is very old indeed. The first conjurers were priests who obtained power over simple minds by performing magical tricks which appeared to have a supernatural origin.
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Playing Card Design
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by Simon Wintle
The playing card calls for artistic treatment and although the constrained size imposes some limitations there is an almost bewildering wealth and variety of designs in playing cards and their tuck boxes. The serious player requires design to be unobtrusive so that aesthetic considerations remain in the background. However, with modern manufacturing technology more eye-catching designs are becoming popular as gifts, collectibles and for their attractive appearance.
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Significado de los Naipes Españoles
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by Simon Wintle
Cartomantic meanings of Spanish playing cards by Benita the Witch (XVI century), published by Chocolates Nelia, c.1932.
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The History of Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Playing Cards have been around in Europe since the 1370s. Some early packs were hand painted works of art which were expensive and affordable only by the wealthy. But as demand increased cheaper methods of production were discovered so that playing cards became available for everyone...
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Waddington’s Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
John Waddington Limited was a leading producer of playing cards and card games in the UK during the period 1922-1995. The company had been founded in the nineteenth century by Mr John Waddington and Wilson Barratt as Waddingtons Ltd.
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History of Court Cards
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by Simon Wintle
The court cards in English packs of playing cards derive from models produced by Pierre Marechal in Rouen around 1565. A pack of such cards is preserved in the museum at Rouen.
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Early History of Playing Cards & Timeline
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by Simon Wintle
Out of an apparent void, a constellation of references in early literature emerge pointing to the sudden arrival of playing cards, principally in Belgium, Germany, Spain and Italy around 1370-1380. Discover the early history of playing cards in our timeline from 50AD to the 15th century.