Nokia II
Advertising pack for the Finnish firm Nokia showing different mobile phones.
This is the second of two publicity packs made by Berliner Spielkarten for Nokia. The court cards have colour photographs of four different mobile phones and of men carrying or using them. Each model of phone is named at the foot. On the Aces and pip cards, the central pips have been replaced by mobile phones, a different model for each suit, all printed in black and white. On the Joker there is a female model on a sun lounger with no sign of a mobile phone! Of note, all the indices are printed one way up only, i.e., they have not been turned in the bottom right-hand corner of each card. Plain blue backs with the wording “NOKIA MOBILE PHONES” in white.
Above: Advertising pack for Nokia mobile phones made by Berliner Spielkarten, Darmstadt, Germany, 1990. 52 cards + 3 (identical) Jokers in clear plastic box. Size: 57 x 89 mm.
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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