The Simpsons™ (Czech version)
Non-standard Bohemian cards featuring The Simpsons made for EFKO, Czech Republic, 2014.
It is certainly unusual to find a non-standard Bohemian pattern pack. This one has been stripped of almost all its usual features to make way for all the usual Simpsons characters (Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa, etc.), including on the numeral cards which have amusing vignettes. The name of the creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, appears somewhere on every card. German suits. For a real Simpsons collector, this pack might be a hard one to track down. See the box►
Above: Non-standard Bohemian cards featuring The Simpsons made for EFKO, Czech Republic, 2014. 32 cards + 1 extra card in tuck box. Size: 63 x 100 mm. Maker unknown.
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022 • Contact
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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