Even More Trial and Error
“Even More Trial and Error” produced by the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards, United Kingdom, 2016.
Following the earlier pack, Trial and Error (2015) a second pack was produced by the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards for the benefit of the same two charities: the Sheriffs’ & Recorder’s Fund and the PAN Intercultural Arts organisation. In this pack, the court cards and aces feature mainly real characters associated with the Old Bailey, some of which repeat those from the earlier pack. But the majority present new images including Oscar Wilde, Dr William Dodd, Judge Martin Stephens, Ben Jonson. The 4 jokers show photos or cartoons of living individuals, including lance Whitehouse, former master of the Worshipful Company.
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Above: “Even More Trial and Error” produced by the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards, United Kingdom, 2016.
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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