Jim Lyngvild playing cards
Photographs of Danish royalty as imagined by fashion designer Jim Lyngvild.
Jim Lyngvild (b.1978) is a Danish designer, writer, photographer, fashion columnist and television personality. After designing an exhibition about the Viking Age for the National Museum of Denmark in 2018, one of his next projects was the creation of a series of photographs depicting Danish royalty but using present-day models dressed in appropriate costumes. A single pack with photos of some of the monarchs was issued in 2020. Two years later, this was extended to become a double pack including the then queen, Margrethe II, as one of the Jokers. The courts are double-ended, while the Jokers are single-ended; all are set against a taupe background. Large, decorated suit-signs are used on the aces, with smaller versions of these on the courts and numeral cards. The back design is identical on both packs • See the box
First pack
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Second pack
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Above: Jim Lyngvild playing cards made by Grønlunds Trykkeri, Allerød, Denmark, 2022. 2 x 52 cards + 3 Jokers in drop-lid box. Size: 58 x 88 mm.
• Jim Lyngvild’s website: jimlyngvild.com►
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By Roddy Somerville
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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