Tea & Coffee Lovers playing cards
Tea & Coffee Lovers playing cards produced by Cultzilla.
“Do you know your Assam from your Darjeeling? Your lungo from your expresso? How much tea do we drink every year?” These are question posed on the tuck box of this attractive pack of cards produced by Cultzilla in 2020. The 52 cards answer these and many more questions. The club suit describes the various types of coffee drinks and coffee making equipment; diamonds and hearts similarly describe the different types of herbal and leaf teas, while spades offer interesting facts about tea and coffee (discovery, history, production, consumption, etc.). There are 2 jokers. See the box & jokers►
Above: Tea & Coffee Lovers playing cards produced by Cultzilla, 2020.
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022
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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