Revokno playing cards
No-revoke pack from the Irish company Ormond, with clubs in green and diamonds in orange.
It seems entirely appropriate that green and orange colours should predominate in this pack from Ireland, given the colours of the Irish flag. No-revoke packs such as this one were popular in the late 1920s and in the 1930s, when it seems that this pack was produced. Here, the clubs are in green and the diamonds in orange. Ormond’s distinctive court card designs are present. However, the Ace of Spades is something of an enigma: the design on this ace, featuring a harp surmounted by the Round Tower at Glendalough, is not found on early Ormond packs but rather is associated with packs produced by Waddington after they had taken over the Ormond Ptg. Co. in 1935. Another puzzle is why Ormond is spelt with an ‘e’ on the tuck box. Admittedly, Ormonde is the more usual Irish spelling (Ormond being the Scottish one) but Ormond was the name of the printing company. ‘Revokno’ was clearly concocted to indicate that this was a no-revoke pack. • See the box
Above: Revokno playing cards made by Ormond Ptg. Co. Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, c1935. 52 cards + 2 (identical) Jokers + complaint slip in tuck box. Size: 58 x 89 mm.
• See the Complaint Slip . There is more about four-colour and no-revoke packs here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-color_deck►
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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