Souvenir Playing Cards
Souvenir playing cards
“Souvenir Playing Cards” featuring drawings and sketches of late 18th century Riga by Johann Christoph Brotze.
Souvenir Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Tourist souvenir playing cards depict the aesthetic, political, social and economic conceptions of the countries to which they belong. They feature beauty spots, local customs, gastronomy, historic ruins or other attractions.
Souvenir Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Argentina publishes many tourist souvenir packs, usually with colour pictures on each card, and with either Spanish suit signs, or else Anglo-american ones, in each corner.
Souvenir Playing Cards from Lebanon
Multicoloured Belgian/Genoese pattern cards, probably printed by Fournier for Lebanon.
Souvenir Views of Scotland Playing Cards
52 selected views of Scotland by De La Rue (Waddingtons) for GlenAlan Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, c.1960s.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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by Matt Probert
Souvenir deck from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin containing photographs from museum collections and archives on each card.
Swiss Album patience
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by Simon Wintle
Swiss Album patience cards manufactured by C. L. Wüst (Frankfurt), c.1900, with a different landscape on the reverse of each card. The court cards depict costumed figures along with shields from the cantons.
Swiss Costumes
Wüst's Swiss Cantons souvenir deck was published in Frankfurt in c.1875 for the emerging tourist market.
Swiss Regional Costumes Playing Cards, c.1890
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by Simon Wintle
This Swiss Regional Costume pack can be seen as an early form of tourist souvenir which subsequently developed into the photographic souvenir pack.
Swiss Scenic Ace Souvenir Cards, c.1850
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by Simon Wintle
Souvenir pack with Scenic Aces made by Müller (Diessenhofen), c.1850.
Swiss Scenic Ace Souvenir Cards, c.1860
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by Simon Wintle
Souvenir pack with Scenic Aces made by J. Müller (Diessenhofen), c.1860. The courts are conventional figures based on French designs.
Swiss Scenic Tarock
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by Simon Wintle
Scenic Tarock deck produced by Fabrique de Cartes J. Müller & Cie (Schaffhouse), Suisse.
Texas Sesquicentennial
Texas Sesquicentennial commemoration playing cards produced by Alief Products Company in 1985.
The Big Deal
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by Simon Wintle
In ‘Patia Te Pere - The Big Deal’, Joan Gragg presents a first edition series of 1000 decks in which the characters, themes and patterns from traditional playing cards are replaced by Cook Islands cultural, environmental and societal icons.
The Blue Train (Bloutrein)
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by Matt Probert
“The Blue Train” playing cards from the luxury train service in South Africa.
The British Royal visit to India playing cards
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by Paul Symons
printed in Spain for British India in 1911.
The Stage No.65
The court cards and Aces each feature four portraits of famous theatre stars from the 1890s inside round frames, against a background pattern based on traditional court cards.