Playing Cards from Iran
EPCS June 2005 Newsletter Members Only
Nederland Shipping Line • Iranian Playing Cards • Trump Indicators • Municipal Honours • Coney People Happy Tribes • Hand Drawn Whist Cards • The Cabinet Pack • SSAFRA • Lexicon Competitions • The Lancashire Lad • Hi-Speed • De La Rue 1875 • Court Fools and Jesters • Cadbury’s Chocolate Game • Posies • City Imperial Volunteers • Playing Card Images in Advertising • Coronation Gift 1911 • Delhi Durbar 1911 • It’s a Knockout • 19th C Transformation
EPCS November 1993 Newsletter Members Only
150th Anniversary of Nelson's Column • Fortune Telling • RAF 75th Anniversary • C-Operative Wholesale Society • Conundrums • 65th Birthday of Mickey Mouse • De La Rue • Walt Disney Packs • Nursery Rhymes • Mother Hubbard • Higgnets Bros • Sunlight Geographic • Bystander • Goodall's National • Iranian
EPCS November 2006 Newsletter Members Only
Lucky Shots • EPCS 25 • Promotional Miniatures • Suffragette • Victorian Instruction Cards • Historical Memento • Livery Companies • WHOT • Car-Soc • De La Rue 1835 • Sforza Page of Staves • Iranian Patience Pack • Urania’s Mirror (Ad) • Victoria Casino 21st • The Telephone • Bits • Splash Page Special • Game of Animals (Ad) • CWF & USPCC • Gypsy Leah’s Card Fortune Book • Barclays Imperial Russian Stout • Thought-Reading by Cards • Theatre Adverts • Prince of Wales Wedding Pips • Prince of Wales Wedding Courts
Hafez Fortune Telling Cards
Fortune Tellers use the Hafez Cards by interpreting the Hāfez poems printed on the card backs when cards are selected randomly by their consultants.
Iranian Popular Art
Representing Iranian culture and history and intended for a Persian market, these playing cards were designed by V. Romanowski de Boncza, ordered by the Iranian government playing card monopoly at the time and printed by Thomas De la Rue & Co., Ltd, c.1937.
Tarot of the Thousand and One Nights (1001 Nights Tarot)
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by Adam Wintle
This tarot deck captures the idealised Eastern world's magic from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, blending traditional archetypes with mystery and romantic allure. It celebrates the legendary Scheherazade and Eastern mysticism.