3-D Dino Cards
Lenticular images of different, unnamed dinosaurs on all-plastic cards.
It is difficult for humans today to imagine what life must have been like in the age of dinosaurs. Using special effects, as in these 3-dimensional images, does help to bring the dinosaurs to life. Each card is different, with the dinosaurs sometimes shown fighting, set against various landscape backgrounds. Hens and cockerels are depicted on the Jokers. The dinosaurs themselves are not named. The cards are all plastic. The full, lenticular effect can only be appreciated by handling the cards; it is difficult to reproduce this in flat images. See the box►
Above: 3-D Dino Cards published by Kikkerland Design, New York, NY, USA, c2020. Made in China. 52 cards + 2 Jokers in tuck box (with cut-away window front). Size: 63 x 88 mm. © Kikkerland Design.
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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