Easter Playing Cards
Egg-shaped cards with rabbit designs in soft, pastel colours for Easter.
Like the Sweetnotes playing cards from the same publisher, this pack is utterly useless for serious play because four different colours and patterns have been used for the reverse. The court cards and Jokers feature cute rabbit heads in pastel colours (same designs in each suit), while the numeral cards are plain.
The cards are not absolutely impossible to play with because of their shape; however, the different colours and patterns on the backs render them pretty useless. See the box►
Above: Easter Playing Cards published by Two’s Company, Mt Vernon, NY, USA, c2005. Cards made in China. 52 cards + 2 Jokers in an egg-shaped drop-lid box. Size: 73 x 101 mm approx.
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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