Sweetnotes playing cards
Heart-shaped cards with sweet notes on all the backs.
This pack is utterly useless for play, not just because of the shape but because six different colours have been used for the reverse, each one having a different “sweetnote” message – Love You, Be Mine, Forever, Kiss Me, Hug Me, Hot Lips – just like the sweets called Love Hearts in the UK. There are ideas as to how to use the cards on the extra card. The card faces are rather boring and unimaginative. Each has a coloured border corresponding to the colour on the back. The fun is in the shape; after that, it’s up to you how to use them! See the box►
Above: Sweetnotes playing cards published by Two’s Company, Mt Vernon, NY, USA, c2005. Cards made in China. 52 cards + 2 Jokers + 1 extra card in heart-shaped drop-lid box. Size: 89 x 105 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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