Traditional English Court

Games & Print Services introduced traditional English courts and a special typeface for the indices after c.1997. The jokers have been re-drawn and the Ace of Spades has a © symbol because of an attempted copyright infringement. The company is now part of Cartamundi.

Above: Games & Print Services standard deck with traditional English courts, c.1997. 52 cards + 2 jokers + bridge scores card. Some decks have silver edges►

Above: Games & Print Services standard deck for Barclaycard, c.1997.

By Simon Wintle

Member since February 01, 1996

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Curator 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.