Key West and the Florida Keys
Key West and the Florida Keys playing cards with photography by Werner J. Bertsch and Larry Lipsky.
The 54 photographs in this souvenir pack show the natural wonders of the Florida Keys and the beaches (including Key Largo, Islamorada, Marathon, Lower Keys and Key West), the flora and fauna, and the many man-made attractions, such as the Seven-mile bridge, the Key West Museum of Art and History, and the Hemingway Museum. Not only are the photographs of a high quality, but a very informative text accompanies each one. The pack` was published in 2009 by Pro Publishing Inc. and the photos were taken by Werner J. Bertsch and Larry Lipsky. See the box►
Above: Key West and the Florida Keys playing cards with photography by Werner J. Bertsch and Larry Lipsky, published by Pro Publishing Inc., 2009.
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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