Modern English Court
Modern English court style by Games & Print Services Limited, c.1997.
Games & Print Services ‘modern’ English courts.

Above: early Games & Print Services cards showing 4 small bridge indexes and ‘modern’ English courts, c.1997. The Joker has no border.


Above: Games & Print Services cards showing 4 small bridge indexes and ‘modern’ English courts, c.1997. The Jokers have a black border.
EPCS Fifteenth Anniversary


Above: English Playing Card Society Fifteenth Anniversary pack, produced by Donald Welsh and designed by Brad Baker, with Modern English courts, special aces and jokers, and the special index typeface. 52 cards + 2 jokers + extra card in box, 1998. Limited edition of 500.

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.