Scottish Picture Playing Cards
Scottish Picture Playing Cards featuring photographs by Colin Baxter, 1987
Scottish Picture Playing Cards featuring atmospheric landscape photographs by Colin Baxter, 1987. The beautiful pictures are best seen in a large format which is slightly constrained in a playing card. See the Box►
Colin Baxter has an original and distinctive style and has contributed to a number of publications see more►
The jokers appear to be inspired by Book of Kells artwork.

Above: Scottish Picture Playing Cards featuring photographs by Colin Baxter, published by John McLean in single or double packs, first edition, 1987. Revised versions were re-issued in 1993 and again in 2014. Images courtesy Matt Probert.

By Matt Probert
Member since March 02, 2012
View ArticlesI have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards.
Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards.
Seeking more information about various unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards.
I describe my self as a playing card archaeologist, using detective work to identify and date obscure packs of cards discovered in old houses, flea markets and car boot sales.