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Aces Playing Cards (2nd edition)

Published February 04, 2023 Updated February 04, 2023

‘Aces Playing Cards’ collaborative art deck published by Zeixs, Cologne (2nd edition).

2012 Germany Zeixs Collaborative

Each card in this pack was individually created by a designer, artist or illustrator in their own distinct style and assembled and published by Zeixs (Cologne) in 2012 in a limited edition of 999 packs. The pack is actually the 2nd edition, and includes 54 different artworks (on 52 playing cards + 2 jokers). This pack is available in two versions: Deluxe Edition in a special tin and Light Edition in a foil laminated cardboard box.

Unfortunately, there is no separate listing of the individual artists involved, but some of the cards are signed: Pete Fowler (ace of spades); Jorge Alderete (5 of spades); Gary Taxali (8 of spades); Nod Young (9 of spades); Yury Ustsinau (king of spades).

‘Aces Playing Cards’ collaborative art deck published by Zeixs, Cologne (2nd edition), 2012 ‘Aces Playing Cards’ collaborative art deck published by Zeixs, Cologne (2nd edition), 2012 ‘Aces Playing Cards’ collaborative art deck published by Zeixs, Cologne (2nd edition), 2012

Above: cards from ‘Aces Playing Cards’ collaborative art deck published by Zeixs, Cologne (2nd edition), 2012.

NOTE: Zeixs (Germany) was founded in 2007 by the publishing house Feierabend Unique Books and is essentially a graphic design company – from typography, illustration and photography to animation and industrial design. See also: 52Aces website

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By Peter Burnett

Member since July 27, 2022

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 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.

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Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.

Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.


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