90 Minutes Playing Cards
90 Minutes Playing Cards by IPC Magazines 1993.
90 Minutes Playing Cards by IPC Magazines issued cello-wrapped, one suit at a time, with four issues of the weekly football magazine "90 Minutes" sometime in 1993.
Above: 90 Minutes Playing Cards by IPC Magazines 1993. 52 cards + 2 jokers.
Note from Roddy Somerville
Cards were supplied cello-wrapped, one suit at a time, within four issues of the magazine "90 Minutes". I still have the cello wrapping! Note how similar in style these cards are to the New Musical Express pack from the same stable (IPC Magazines). - RS.
Above: image courtesy Roddy Somerville.
By Matt Probert
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