Cusco Inca Souvenir
Pre-Incas & Incas Souvenir Playing Cards, Cusco, Peru, 2000.
Pre-Incas & Incas Souvenir Playing Cards, Cusco, Peru, 2000, showing pre-Inca and Inca artefacts and ruins. The cards have a laminated plastic finish.
Above: Pre-Incas & Incas Souvenir Playing Cards, Cusco, Peru, 2000. 52 cards + 2 jokers in box. The reverse shows stone masonry in grey border.
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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