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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.

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1932 Significado de los Naipes Españoles

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...

1922 Waddington’s Playing Cards

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.

1875 ‘El Cid’ designed by E. Pastor, Valencia, Spain, c.1875

‘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

2001 About Emily Arkin

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.

1948 Adametz, Vienna

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.

1960 Advertising Playing-Cards by La Cubana, S.A, Mexico c.1960

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.

1984 Airwolf

Airwolf

Airwolf card game, CROMY, Argentina

1910 Algeria

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.

1530 Antique Swiss Playing Cards, c.1530

Antique Swiss Playing Cards, c.1530

The Swiss national suit system of shields, acorns, hawkbells and flowers originated sometime during the fifteenth century.

1980 Argenar, Buenos Aires, c.1980

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

1890 Argentine Political Cards

Argentine Political Cards

Political Playing Cards, Buenos Aires, 1890.

1999 Argentinean Tango playing cards

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.

1982 Astra Games

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

2002 Baraja

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.

1980 Baraja Aparcero

Baraja Aparcero

Designed to illustrate the history of four indigenous tribes who represent the roots of the Argentinean race.

1926 Baraja Artistas del Cine Mudo

Baraja Artistas del Cine Mudo

Baraja Artistas del Cine Mudo, c.1926.

1930 Baraja Boxeo

Baraja Boxeo

Baraja de Boxeo, c.1930.

1925 Baraja Cinematográfica, c.1925

Baraja Cinematográfica, c.1925

Baraja Cinematográfica printed by J. M. Arnau, Barcelona, 1925-26.

1938 Baraja Hoja de Afeitar

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.

1420 Baraja Morisca — Early XV century playing cards

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.