National Railway Museum
National Railway Museum with drawings by Stuart Black, United Kingdom, 1993.
This pack was exclusively developed for the National Railway Museum York and printed by Carta Mundi, Belgium in 1993. The drawings by Stuart Black show a selection of locomotives representing their historical development over more than one hundred years. Unfortunately, the drawings are repeated on each suit and the jokers, which means only 14 engines are depicted. There are two extra cards – the first offering details of the locomotives displayed, and the second giving a brief history of the Museum. See the box►
Above: National Railway Museum (Leeds) playing cards with drawings by Stuart Black, produced by Carta Mundi, 1993.
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022 • Contact
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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