Hummingbirds of the Americas
Colour photographs of hummingbirds with data about each species to aid recognition.
Produced by Impact Photographics of El Dorado Hills, CA, and printed in Korea, this colourful pack shows 14 different photographs of hummingbirds, 13 of which are repeated on each suit with the 14th repeated on the two jokers. Below each photograph is “interpretive text” which includes the scientific name, length, wingspan, weight, habitat and main diet or feeding habit of the bird illustrated.
Above: Hummingbirds of the Americas playing cards produced by Impact Photographics of El Dorado Hills, CA. Undated, printed in Korea.
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022 • Contact
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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