Historic Boston and Vicinity
Historic Boston and Vicinity Souvenir Playing Cards, 1909.
Historic Boston and Vicinity Souvenir Playing Cards, 1909
54 cards, published by Chisholm Brothers, Portland, Maine, manufactured by the U.S. Playing Card Co.


Historic Boston and Vicinity Souvenir playing cards, published by Chisholm Brothers, c.1910. The back has a large oval with the Bunker Hill Monument in the centre. This is the second edition in which the oval outline on the back design is outlined in gold and the title is in gold print. The cards have the same oval photograph scenes of the area as the first edition, which are tinted in a different colour for each suit.

By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
View ArticlesCurator and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.