Mohegan Sun playing cards
Mohegan Sun playing cards published by Gemaco for Mohegan Sun casino.
Mohegan Sun is an American casino, owned and operated by the Mohegan Tribe on their reservation, along the banks of the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut. The Mohegan Tribe is a federally recognized tribe and sovereign tribal nation of the Mohegan people and were able to open the Mohegan Sun casino on October 12, 1996.
This casino pack has been used and so has a hole punched through the whole pack to prevent cheating or re-use. The court cards, in the style of woodcuts, depict twentieth-century Mohegans wearing authentic regalia. Each of the named individuals was well known for their traditional ways, and are named on the extra card. The jokers show a Mohegan mask. See the box►
Above: Mohegan Sun playing cards published by Gemaco playing card company for Mohegan Sun casino, Uncasville, Connecticut.
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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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