Simon Wintle
- Spain • 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.
Significado de los Naipes Españoles
Cartomantic meanings of Spanish playing cards by Benita the Witch (XVI century), published by Chocolates Nelia, c.1932.
List of Argentinian Playing Card Manufacturers
List of Argentinian Playing Card Manufacturers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The History of Playing Cards
Playing Cards have been around in Europe since the 1370s. Some early packs were hand painted works of art which were expensive and affordable only by the wealthy. But as demand increased cheaper methods of production were discovered so that playing cards became available for everyone...
Waddington’s Playing Cards
John Waddington Limited was a leading producer of playing cards and card games in the UK during the period 1922-1995. The company had been founded in the nineteenth century by Mr John Waddington and Wilson Barratt as Waddingtons Ltd.
History of Court Cards
The court cards in English packs of playing cards derive from models produced by Pierre Marechal in Rouen around 1565. A pack of such cards is preserved in the museum at Rouen.
‘El Cid’ designed by E. Pastor, Valencia, Spain, c.1875
‘El Cid’ fantasy playing cards designed by E. Pastor, Valencia, Spain, c.1875
16th century cards discovered in Peru
Fragments of playing cards and 2 dice were unearthed in a 16th century rubbish tip adjacent to a Spanish house in the lower Rimac Valley in Peru, providing evidence of games played by early Spanish settlers.
2000Pips Transformation Pack
2000Pips Transformation Pack
4 Seasons Playing Cards
Colours of the Four Seasons - Playing Card Art Deck
A. Camoin & Cie, Casablanca & Marseille
Spanish national pattern by A. Camoin & Cie, Casablanca & Marseille
About Catherine Kelly
Catherine Kelly, M.A. Paint and Print, B.A. History of Art and Fine Art Painting, is an artist working in Dublin
About Emily Arkin
Emily Arkin is an artist from Somerville, MA.
About Georgina Harvey
Georgina Harvey worked together with Karl Gerich.
About Heraclio Díaz
Heraclio Díaz lives in the Canary Islands (Spain).
About Karl Gerich (1956-2016)
About Karl Alexander Gerich, 23rd April 1956 — 4th January 2016
About Peter Wood
Peter Wood is a UK based artist.
About Shelley Fowles
Shelley Fowles was born in South Africa but has lived in the United Kingdom since 1979. She trained in Art in Brighton and London.
About Witta Jensen
WITTA JENSEN… on the cards.
Adametz, Vienna
Cards from a 54-card "Austrian Tarock" or "Industrie und Glück Tarock" pack made by Franz Adametz of Vienna, c.1948. This type of pack originated around the middle of the 19th century and was used (and still is) in Austria and Hungary.
Advertising Playing-Cards by La Cubana, S.A, Mexico c.1960
Advertising Playing-Cards by La Cubana, S.A. (Fabrica de Naipes El Aguila), Mexico, c.1960.
Airwolf
Airwolf card game, CROMY, Argentina
Algeria
Spanish suited playing cards produced by B. P. Grimaud (Paris) for Algeria, around 1910.
Amalgamated Playing Card Co., Ltd
Agreement had been reached between Waddington's and De La Rue during the second world war for Waddington's to manufacture playing cards for De la Rue. Thus the Amalgamated Playing Card Company was born but it remained an unofficial name for many years.
Animal Tarok by Jean Friedrich Mayer (1752-1783)
Animal Tarok by Jean Friedrich Mayer (1752-1783).
Animals Quartet printed for Cigarrillos El Figaro, Peru
Animals Quartet game printed for Cigarrillos El Figaro, Peru, early 1900s.
Anna Gaber
Anna Gaber playing cards from Poland.
Anonymous Mexican Playing Cards c.1825
Anonymous Mexican playing cards, finely engraved and coloured on good card stock, first quarter of the 1800s.
Antique Swiss Playing Cards, c.1530
The Swiss national suit system of shields, acorns, hawkbells and flowers originated sometime during the fifteenth century.
Argenar, Buenos Aires, c.1980
The reverse has advertising for Cymaco motor spares who have branches in Uruguay.
Argentina Tax Stamps on playing cards 1895-1968
Argentina Tax Stamps on playing cards 1895-1968
Argentine Political Cards
Political Playing Cards, Buenos Aires, 1890.
Argentinean Tango playing cards
The Tango - sultry and seductive - is Argentina's form of popular music and dance, invented in Buenos Aires in the 19th century.
Astra Games
Astra Games was a subsidiary of the McCorquodale Group of Companies, producing playing cards during the period 1982-87.
Bahía Graf, printers, Buenos Aires, Argentina
A pack specially designed for a sandwich bar and cake shop. The jokers show a pile of sandwiches.
Balázs Pál Nagy's Playing Cards
Balázs Pál Nagy's Playing Cards
Balázs Pál Nagy's Tell No. 3306 Playing Cards
Balázs Pál Nagy Tell 3306
Baraja "Te Amo" cartoons by Serafín
Baraja 'Te Amo' con dibujos de Serafín en tirada de 500 ejemplares numerados, 48 naipes. Fabricado por Naipes Comas (Barcelona) 2002.
Baraja Aparcero
Designed to illustrate the history of four indigenous tribes who represent the roots of the Argentinean race.
Baraja Artistas del Cine Mudo
Baraja Artistas del Cine Mudo, c.1926.
Baraja Boxeo
Baraja de Boxeo, c.1930.
Baraja Cinematográfica, c.1925
Baraja Cinematográfica printed by J. M. Arnau, Barcelona, 1925-26.
Baraja Hoja de Afeitar
La Baraja 'Hoja de Afeitar'. Baraja de Hojas Maravilla descalificadas como de primerísima categoría.
Baraja Infantil made in Cuba
cards from a 40-card children's "Questions and Answers" game. The Spanish suit signs have been changed to tambourines, yo-yos, swords and skittles. Printed lithographically in Cuba, c.1930.
Baraja Morisca — Early XV century playing cards
Primitive Latin suited pack, dated by paper analysis as early XV century, which makes this one of the earliest known surviving packs of playing cards.