Netherlands Kostuum Kwartet
Dutch costumes quartet game designed by Gerard Huijg, 1983.
Above: Netherlands Kostuum Kwartet game designed by Gerard Huijg, published by Stichting Nederlandse Folklore (Dutch Folklore Foundation), Amsterdam, 1983. 32 cards (large size 120 x 80) + leaflet in box.

Dutch costumes quartet game designed by Gerard Huijg and published by Stichting Nederlandse Folklore (Dutch Folklore Foundation), Amsterdam, 1983.
Traditional costumes tend to disappear due to the influence of the outside world... read leaflet ►


By Simon Wintle
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Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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