La Réussite (Sébastien Féraut)
Sébastien Féraut’s designs inspired by the animal kingdom for a set promoting patience games.
Although these cards can be used to play any games requiring 52 (or 54) cards, the publishers (IELLO) clearly intend them to be used to play patience or solitaire games (la réussite). The designs by Sébastien Féraut feature stylised birds, animals and reptiles on the court cards. A different colour scheme has been used for each set of courts and a different pale background colour has been used for each suit. The multicoloured pattern on the reverse is repeated inside the box. The accompanying booklet in French includes not only rules and strategies for patience games but also brief histories of playing cards in general and patience in particular – sections contributed by Gwenael Beuchet from the Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer at Issy-les-Moulineaux • See the box
Above: La Réussite playing cards designed by Sébastien Féraut and published by IELLO SAS, Heillecourt, in collaboration with the Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 2024. 52 cards + 2 Jokers + 28-page booklet in French, in sliding box. Size: 63 x 88 mm. Made in China. © 2024 IELLO SAS.
Purchased in Dijon, France, December 2024. Available here - iello.shop/jeux/397-la-reussite-sebastien-feraut►
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022
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 President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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