Muir & Moodie Pictorial
Muir & Moodie Pictorial playing cards, New Zealand, c.1903
Muir & Moodie Pictorial playing cards
Right: snippet from The Poverty Bay Herald, describing the Pictorial Playing Cards as "just brought out", dated 1903.
The Muir & Moodie Photography Studio (1898-1916) published post cards and other photographic items documenting events in New Zealand daily life. Some of the post cards were made in Bavaria. The playing cards shown here, described on the extra card as the Greatest Novelty of the Century, feature interesting 'triplicate' indices and corner pip arrangements on the numeral cards as well as black and white photographs on all the cards. The cards were printed in Bavaria (Germany) for export to New Zealand where they were sold. The formal back design was available in red or blue.
Above: The Muir & Moodie Pictorial Playing Cards, published by Muir & Moodie (1898-1916), Dunedin, New Zealand, c.1903. There was an import duty which usually has a stamp on the 2 of Diamonds. Images kindly supplied by Jack Berkus.
See also: Souvenir Playing Cards • Historic Boston Souvenir Playing Cards • Panama Canal Souvenir Playing Cards • Vistas de Lima Souvenir Playing Cards • Vistas del Perú Souvenir Playing Cards • Peru Souvenir Playing Cards • Peru Rail Souvenir Playing Cards • Swiss Scenic Aces Souvenir Playing Cards • World's Fair Souvenir • Souvenir packs for King Christian of Denmark • Vic Joc de Cartes, 1990 • Fenno Products, Peru • Naipe Ciudad de Quito, Ecuador • Ecuador Turistico Souvenir • Argentina Souvenir Cards • Spanish Republic Souvenir • Málaga Souvenir Playing Cards • Galapagos Islands Souvenir • Cook Islands Souvenir
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
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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