New Orleans and Gulf souvenir
New Orleans and Gulf souvenir playing cards from c1900 reprinted for the 52 Plus Joker Convention in New Orleans, 2010.
This pack is a reproduction of the original pack of the same title published by USPCC. ca. 1900, and was produced for the 52 Plus Joker Convention which took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, September 22nd – 25th 2010. Like the original this pack has pale pink magnolia blossoms forming an oval frame on the reverse, while the cards show photos of buildings and monuments in New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf area. The sole deviation from the original is the photograph on one of the jokers – the Chateau Bourbon Historic Wyndham Hotel, 2010 -- the location of the Convention. The pack was produced in a limited edition of 200 packs.
Above: New Orleans and Gulf souvenir playing cards, originally printed by USPCC in c1900, reprinted with one joker modified for the 52 Plus Joker Convention in New Orleans, 2010. Limited edition of 200 packs.
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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