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Portuguese Conjuring Playing Cards

Published July 03, 1996 Updated May 15, 2022

Portuguese Conjuring Playing Cards, c.1850.

1850 Portugal Cardistry Magic
Conjuring playing cards, c.1850

Eight cards and box from an unusual and very rare Portuguese conjuring pack, c.1850

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Conjuring playing cards, c.1850

Images courtesy Fernanda Frazão.

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By Simon Wintle

Member since February 01, 1996

Founder 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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