Li River Souvenir
Li River Souvenir Playing Cards from China.
Li River Souvenir
Above: cards from Chinese souvenir deck featuring colour photos of the Li River, Guilin and Canton etc. with captions in English and Chinese. Date and manufacturer unknown. Images courtesy Peter Hepworth.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder 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.
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