Holidays – les côtes françaises
Holiday destinations around the French coast as depicted by Pauline Launay.
Thumbing through this pack might give you some fresh ideas for places to visit around the French coast. Indeed, these are essentially modern travel posters, executed in soft, pastel colours by the illustrator Pauline Launay. The areas covered include Normandy, Brittany, the Vendée, Charente-Maritime, the Landes, the Basque Country and Provence. Each town or village is named. Means of transport are featured on the aces – a bicycle, a scooter, a 2CV, and a VW camper van. The indices have a hand-drawn look. Seagulls adorn the reverse. See the box
Above: "Holidays – les côtes françaises" playing cards published by Editions d’Art Jack, Louannec, France, c2024. Made in France. 52 cards + 2 Jokers + 1 title card in French, in tuck box. Size: 63 x 88 mm. Purchased in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, May 2024.
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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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