By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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Miniature playing cards, possibly for children, with a romantic theatrical theme. C.L. Wüst c.1890.
A miniature theatrical pack of playing cards, Germany? c.1900
This miniature pack is very similar to one made by C.L.Wúst in c.1890.
Suchard chocolate miniature playing cards
A miniature pack of playing cards advertising Suchard chocolate and cocoa made in the early 1900's.
Bone Playing Cards
My late mother found these miniature cards in a skip around 50 years ago.
Panto People
Panto People published by E. S. & A. Robinson, c.1930s.
Hats-Off!
Hats-Off! miniature card game published by E. S. & A. Robinson, c.1930s.
Zoo-Boots
Zoo-Boots published by E. S. & A. Robinson, c.1930s.
Gibbs Happy Families
Gibbs Happy Families card game promotion, both full sized and miniature versions, c.1946.
Lever Brothers miniatures
Two miniature card games promoting Vim Scouring Powder and Sunshine Soap, 1930s.
Tonalamatl
Baraja Tonalamatl Mexican Aztec playing cards based on the prehispanic Codex Borgia manuscript.
Patience Cards and their Boxes
Patience Cards and their Boxes by Tony Hall.
Spider Solitaire
Spider Solitaire is a free web site offering new versions of the classic solitaire card game
Barribal patience
Waddington’s Patience Cards from the Barribal Series, c.1929.
Hansa-Karte
Bechstein design reprinted by Vereinigte Stralsunder Spielkartenfabriken AG former Schneider & Co., c1925.
Baraja Taurina Toranzo
Baraja Taurina Mexicana Toranzo with paintings by Antonio Navarrete, 2003
Bucktrout & Co. Ltd
Half-sized cigarette playing cards published by Bucktrout & Co., Ltd (Guernsey) c.1930.
Gallo Intransparente
Gallo Extra Intransparente by Clemente Jacques y Cia S.A., Mexico.
Tesseract Mobile Solitaire Games
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Prince of Wales National Relief Fund 1914
A two-pack patience set produced by Thomas De la Rue on behalf of the Prince of Wales National Relief Fund in 1914.
Piccadilly Patience
Piccadilly Patience by Piatnik, c.1955
El Aguila
Naipes ‘El Aguila’ with flamboyantly dressed court figures made in Mexico by La Cubana S.A., c.1975.
Pedro Domecq
Anglo-American pattern for Pedro Domecq Mexican brandy made by Productos Leo S.A., c.2000.
Selección Nacional de Fútbol
‘Selección Nacional de Fútbol’ playing cards published in Mexico by Novelty Corp de México S.A. de C.V., 2002.
Nestlé ‘Happy Families’
‘Happy Families’ published by Nestlé in 1935.
F. X. Schmid Mini-Patience
Miniature Patience playing cards in Rococo style published by F. X. Schmid, c.1960
British American Tobacco patience
Patience deck for British American Tobacco printed by Speelkaartenfabriek Nederland c.1940
Magic Poker Cards
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Permalon Ltd
Miniature playing cards advertising "Perma" smoking-related products featuring the "Perma Girl" on the backs and Joker.
Czech Patience Cards
Patience size playing cards published by Obchodni Tiskarny of Prague, under the brand “Casino”, with cartoon courts in the style of wood engravings.
In der Fuehrer’s Face
“In der Fuehrer’s Face” playing cards designed in 1945 by Antonio Arias Bernal, a Mexican artist, but not published until 2002.
Miniature Disney deck
Mickey Mouse card game is part of a promotion for Rübezahl Schokoladen GmbH (Germany).
Wills Scheme
The W.D & H.O. Wills Playing Card promotion of the early 1930s
As Vencedores
Two colourful Mexican packs by an anonymous manufacturer titled “As Vencedores” on the ace of coins, designed in the Mexican style, based on the Spanish ‘Castilian’ pattern.
Baraja Hispanoamericana
“Baraja Hispanoamericana” published by Asescoin, with artwork by Ortuño, illustrates memorable people from the discovery, colonisation and subsequent liberation of Hispanic America
Baraja Charra Ernesto Icaza
“Baraja Charra” with paintings by Ernesto Icaza, 2002.
Billiken Minicartas
Children’s toy cards published in Argentina by Editorial Atlántida in the magazine “Billiken”, 1964.
Collecting Playing Cards
How I began Collecting Playing Cards by Robert S. Lancaster
Goodall & Son’s Patience & Miniature packs
Goodall & Son’s Patience & Miniature packs came in various styles of box and back design, c.1890-1930.
Modiano Patience
Patience cards published by Modiano, c.1945.
Carte per Signora
“Carte per Signora” patience pack was produced by Fratelli Armanino, Genova, in c.1897.