Cards issued free with magazines or merchandise
Naipes Hijitus
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by Simon Wintle
Naipes HIJITUS playing cards were published during the mid-1980s as an insert in the children’s comic Anteojito.
Pachimon Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Quirky Pachimon playing cards from 1970s Japan, featuring unique monsters and aliens, given away with Kewpie mayonnaise.
Panorama playing cards
Panorama playing cards included with a weekly news magazine published in Milan, Italy, c. 1979.
Picture Show — Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Zodiac Celebrities fortune-telling cards presented with 'Picture Show' magazine, 1930. The cards were printed in black and red and supplied as uncut sheets inserted into the magazine.
Pop Rocky
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by Simon Wintle
“Pop Rocky” miniature playing cards with double-ended caricatures of celebrities and pop stars, originally published inside a magazine, c.1970.
Ramses II tarot
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by Simon Wintle
Ramses II Tarot deck was published c.1975 in conjunction with a Peruvian occult or esoteric magazine.
Roldan Tobacco Cards, Peru
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by Simon Wintle
Tobacco cards with miniature playing cards inset into top corners, printed by Litografía y Tipografía Fabbri Hermanos, for Roldan y Cia Tobacco, Lima, c.1895.
Seminole Wars deck by James Y. Humphreys, Philadelphia, c.1819
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by Simon Wintle
Court cards from the Seminole Wars deck by J. Y. Humphreys, Philadelphia, c.1819. Ace of Spades from Jazaniah Ford's Decatur deck, 1815. Jazaniah Ford was born in Milton (Massachusetts) in 1757
Smash Hits playing cards
Pack of playing cards with pop stars offered free with the Smash Hits magazine.
Spanish Historical Characters playing cards, c.1896
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by Simon Wintle
Cards from the Spanish Historical Characters playing cards set printed by Litografía Madriguera (Barcelona), c.1896, which were inserted into packets of chocolate.
Suchard chocolate miniature playing cards
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by Paul Symons
A miniature pack of playing cards advertising Suchard chocolate and cocoa made in the early 1900's.
Sweetule Natural History cards
Small cards featuring natural history subjects, given away with packets of sweet cigarettes.
Tarot Actuel 1984
Major arcana to cut out, issued with the French magazine Actuel, using photographic images.
