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.
Phelippe Ayet, c.1574
Archaic, late medieval Spanish-suited playing cards printed by Phelippe Ayet, c.1574.
Piatnik & Sons for the“Estanco de Naipes del Perú”
Playing Cards made by Piatnik & Sons for the“Estanco de Naipes del Perú”, c.1960.
Picture Show — Zodiac Fortune Telling Cards
Zodiac Celebrities fortune-telling cards presented with 'Picture Show' magazine, 1930. The cards were printed in black and red and supplied as uncut sheets inserted into the magazine.
Pippoglyph
Pippoglyph Playing Cards by Ben Crenshaw © 2004
Playing Cards and Religion
Early engravers and print makers made devotional images for pilgrims and people who could not afford paintings or books. Many of these craftsmen turned their hand to manufacturing playing cards to earn extra income. Today playing cards are often produced to spread religious messages, teachings or fo...
Playing Cards by Compañia General de Fósforos
Playing Cards by Compañia General de Fósforos, Bs. As. (founded 1888).
Playing Cards by J J Nunes
Playing Cards by J J Nunes, Lisbon, Portugal
Playing Cards from Ecuador
There has been very little playing card manufacture in Ecuador. Cards are mostly supplied from Colombia, Argentina & Spain. Known brand names include: Willy Wilson, La Raspa and El Heraldo. Some locally-made tourist souvenir packs are also known including Naipe Ciudad de Quito and Galapagos Islands ...
Playing Cards from Ireland
During the nineteenth century playing cards were being produced in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.
Playing Cards from Mexico
MEXICO shares a long tradition with Spain in the field of playing cards. The Estanco de Naipes (playing-card monopoly) was established in 1576.
Playing Cards in El Salvador
Cards were first imported to Central America from Spain, although local production has always existed. Today El Salvador has some local production of playing cards, which are often of rudimentary quality.
Playing Cards in Honduras
Honduras shares a long tradition with Spain in the field of playing cards.
Playing cards in Morocco
The earliest literary references to playing cards in Europe refer to the game having been introduced by a 'Saracen', and also to Moorish and Damascene varieties of playing card.
Playing Cards in other cards
Secondary applications of playing cards.
Playing cards in Puerto Rico
Playing cards in Puerto Rico.
Playing cards in the Upper Rhine region
Documentary evidence suggests that card playing established itself in Italy in 1376, and then spread rapidly northwards across the Alps into the Upper Rhine regions of Germany and Switzerland and westwards into France and Spain.
Playing Cards in Venezuela
Naipes “El Torero” No. 1000 manufactured in Caracas by Productos Nacaral C.A., c.1975
Playing cards in Wales - Welsh playing cards
Whereas the distinctiveness of Wales is an important resource contributing to the rich texture of variety which characterises the island of Britain, to date no Welsh playing cards cards have been found which were actually manufactured in Wales.
Playing Cards manufactured by The US Playing Card Co for the Estanco de Naipes del Peru
Playing cards manufactured by The US Playing Card Co for the Estanco de Naipes del Peru, 1920s - 1950s.
Poker Taurino
Baraja Taurina was published by Enrique Guerrero, c.1950. Subsequently published as Poker Taurino by Clemente Jacques y Cia, S.A.
Polaires - Foreign Legion Playing Cards
A Bridge-style deck featuring Foreign Legion paintings by Maitre Rosenberg.
Polish Playing Cards
Poland has been involved in playing card production since the 15th century.
Politicards 2000 by Action Publishing
Politicards 2000 features 54, full colour, caricatures of the candidates, politicians and political pundits shaping the American presidential elections in 2000
Popular heroes and celebrities
Miniature children's playing cards depicting popular heroes and celebrities on the backs, Montevideo, c.1928.
Portuguese Conjuring Playing Cards
Portuguese Conjuring Playing Cards, c.1850.
Portuguese Playing Cards
The Real Fábrica de Cartas de Jogar was founded in 1769, by Royal Charter of King José, under the master craftsman Lorenzo Solezio, brother of Félix Solesio who ran the Spanish Real Fábrica at Macharaviaya.
Portuguese Type Cards made in Belgium
Portuguese Type Playing Cards made in Belgium, c.1878.
Portuguese Type Playing Cards c.1860
10 cards from a pack of later Portuguese ‘Dragon’ type cards from c.1860, with the Maid of batons about to club a dog.
Portuguese Type Playing Cards made in Belgium
Portuguese type pack with ‘dragon’ aces made in Belgium by Mesmaekers Frères, Turnhout, c.1875-1900.
Prof. Franciszek Bunsch
Prof. Franciszek Bunsch, Polish playing-card designer.
Proverbs and Maxims
Naipe Infantil Gauchito children’s miniature playing cards with Proverbs and Maxims on the reverse,
Queen of Hearts
“Queen of Hearts” by Josie Callipari, winner of the Brian Tucker Accounting Desert Fantasia Award 2005
Quercia y Possi, Buenos Aires 1815-16
José Maria Quercia y Possi was an Italian immigrant who joined the Chilean Independence army. He set up a playing card factory in Argentina in 1815 known as "Fábrica de Buenos Aires".
Radisson Hotels
Playing cards for Radisson Hotels - Casinos del Estado - Victoria Plaza, Montevideo, Uruguay, c.2009.
Real Fábrica de Macharaviaya
This is the official Spanish National pattern of the 18th century. Design and production was controlled from Madrid as a source of national or regional revenue. The factory was located in the town of Macharaviaya, in the province of Málaga.
Regarding the designs of playing cards
The quality of playing card designs often deteriorates with time…
Reinholds Kasparsons
Reinholds Kasparsons, a popular Latvian illustrator of the day, designed this pack which was published as The Best Quality Playing cards No.1 in 1932.
Renaissance Playing Cards
Renaissance Playing Cards by Maxim Hurwicz, showing 54 different drawings spanning the years 1066 to 1400.
Ricardo Sopena
Argentina importing agent Ricardo Sopena, Corrientes 920, Buenos Aires
Robert Morden’s Playing Cards
The 52 Counties of England and Wales described as a pack of cards first published in London in 1676.
Roldan Tobacco Cards, Peru
Tobacco cards with miniature playing cards inset into top corners, printed by Litografía y Tipografía Fabbri Hermanos, for Roldan y Cia Tobacco, Lima, c.1895.
Romagnole pattern by Guglielmo Murari
Romagnole pattern by Guglielmo Murari c.1920
Romanian playing cards by Alf Cooke
Romanian playing cards, manufactured and exported by the Universal Playing Card Co., Leeds, in the 1930s.
Russian Constitutional Playing Cards, 1909
A rare American Russian political pack depicting events and moods in early 20th century Russia.
Russian Standard Playing Cards
Cards from an early version of a Russian standard woodblock and stencil pack of circa 1820.
Safe as Houses by Catherine Kelly
My current work evolved from using a pack of cards as a metaphor to explore the randomness of life and the luck of the draw.
Sardinian playing cards
Sardinian playing cards.
Scooby-Doo! playing cards for Hellmann’s Magic
Miniature Spanish-suited playing cards featuring Scooby-Doo! made specially for Hellmann’s.
Sebastian Comas y Ricart, Barcelona
“El Ciervo” standard Catalan-type pack made in Barcelona by Sebastian Comas y Ricart, c.1905-10.