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Jest Jokers

Published January 29, 2015 Updated July 02, 2023

Peter Wood’s “Jest Jokers” comprising 54 different Joker designs made into a full pack of cards.

2000 United Kingdom Peter Wood Art & Design Joker

A pack of 54 different Joker designs created and produced by British playing card artist Peter Wood, 2000. As Pete explains: “The idea came from seeing joker collectors! I was asked for individual jokers from my decks so thought a deck of jokers could be fun!”

Peter has been designing playing cards since 1994 when his ‘Teddy Bear Transformation’ deck was published by Andrew Jones Art. Since then he has self published several limited editions, and more recently co-published ‘2000PIPS’, a full colour transformation deck limited to 1000 packs.

• See Peter’s wildlife photography on Flickr

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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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