Warka playing cards
Advertising pack for the Polish brewery Warka, featuring footballers, coaches and supporters.
Warka is one of Poland’s oldest breweries, now majority owned by Heineken. According to the only text on the box, Warka is the official sponsor of the Polish national team - presumably the football team, though this is not stated explicitly. All the designs take the form of black and white drawings: the court cards depict unnamed footballers (K), supporters (D & W), and coaches (A), while each numeral card shows a player from behind, with the corresponding number on his shirt. The numeral card designs are the same in each suit. The indices are in Polish – K, D, W, A. A referee using his whistle or brandishing a red or yellow card appears on each of the three Jokers. The Warka logo can be found on the reverse and also on the box
Above: Warka Brewery playing cards printed by Trefl, Poland, 2011. 52 cards + 3 Jokers in tuck box. Size: 58 x 88 mm.
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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