Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum
Various armoured vehicles on a pack from New Zealand’s National Army Museum.
The Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum (now called the National Army Museum) in Waiouru, New Zealand, opened in 1978. It functions as the museum of the New Zealand Army and has a particularly fine collection of medals including 13 Victoria Crosses. One of the early souvenir items produced for the museum’s gift shop was this pack of cards featuring armoured vehicles from around the world. Those vehicles include battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers, scout cars and assault guns from Argentina, France, Great Britain, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, USSR and West Germany. Essential details are printed beneath each horizontal, black and white drawing. The Joker features an early musketeer.
Above: Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum playing cards produced by U.E.B. Industries Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand, c1980. 52 cards + 2 (identical) Jokers + 2 score cards in clear plastic box. Size: 59 x 88 mm.
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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