Last Call Cats playing cards
Bar-crawling cats, designed by artists Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa.
Artists Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa created these cat cards based on their best-selling series of block-printed matchboxes. The bar-crawling cats occupy the space in the centre of each court card, the designs being double-ended. They are shown holding various drinks, a dart, a pretzel or a billiard/snooker cue. Confusingly, the cats on both the kings and the jacks sport crowns. The indices are larger than normal. A cat juggling bottles of beer and falling off a chair appears on the Joker(s).
Above: Last Call Cats playing cards designed by Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa, published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2021. Made in China. 52 cards + 2 (identical) Jokers in solid telescopic box. Size: 63.5 x 89 mm. © 2021 by Arna Miller and Ravi Zupa.
The advertising slip was packed between the box and the outer cellophane wrapper. See the box
By Roddy Somerville
France • Member since May 31, 2022 • Contact
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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