Lo Stampatore
‘Lo Stampatore’ linocut images created by Sergio Favret, published as a deck of cards by Editions Solleone / Vito Arienti in 1977.
Based on an idea of Riccardo Capellini this is a pack of modern elaborate wood- or linocut images created by Sergio Favret. The images are the same in the four suits but are differently coloured. There are 40 cards and 4 jokers. The pack was published by Editions Solleone / Vito Arienti in 1977 in a limited numbered edition of 950 copies. The pack illustrated here is no. 341. Numbers 301 – 950 were reserved for Edizioni “il Meneghello” di O. Menegazzi, Milano.
Above: ‘Lo Stampatore’ linocut images created by Sergio Favret, published as a deck of playing cards by Editions Solleone / Vito Arienti in 1977.
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • 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.
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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