Willeb Cartes Piquet 502
Éditions Willeb Cartes à Jouer Piquet - Belote - Manille Laquées 502
Éditions Willeb Cartes à Jouer Piquet - Belote - Manille Laquées 502. The joker is also double-ended in the same style as the courts. Éditions Willeb, 13 Rue Marivaux, Paris, were book publishers since 1930s and published standard cards, tarots, children's card games, toys and puzzles.
Above: Éditions Willeb (Paris) Cartes à Jouer Piquet - Belote - Manille Laquées 502. 32 cards + joker in box.
By Matt Probert
United Kingdom • Member since March 02, 2012
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 unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards.
I describe my self as a playing card archaeologist, using detective work to identify and date obscure packs of cards discovered in old houses, flea markets and car boot sales.
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