Salmon Flies
Icelandic pack featuring a different salmon fly on every card.
Historically, commercial fishing always played a key part in the Icelandic economy. Nowadays, recreational fishing is a popular pastime, given this island nation’s network of lakes and rivers. Among the different species of fish found in Icelandic waters, salmon can only be fished from June to September, and only in freshwater. Several hundred different types of salmon fly exist, of which 52 are displayed in full colour in this pack, named top and bottom. The pack exists with red or blue patterned backs. See the box►
Above: Salmon Flies playing cards published by Laxakort hf, Reykjavik, Iceland, c1996. Printed by Piatnik, Vienna, Austria. 52 cards + 2 (identical) Jokers + 1 extra card in tuck box. Size: 58 x 89 mm.
Laxaflugur = salmon flies in Icelandic.
By Roddy Somerville
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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