Politisk Tarot
Swedish politicians caricatured by Dan Glimne in a set of Tarot trumps.
Dan Glimne, who came up with the idea for and designed this pack, is a well-known Swedish games expert and designer of games who has himself been a candidate for Sweden’s Moderate Party. To quote from a letter received from Dan in April 1997, “I came up with the idea as a gimmick before the annual national convention of the Moderate Party here, and of course the illustrations contain various elegant ironical allusions concerning the ruling party here”. That ruling party was the Swedish Social Democratic Party which had won the general election in 1994. The date 1998 on the sleeve refers to the next general election. Gideon Salutskij executed the black-and-white illustrations. The print run was just 959 copies. See the box►
Above: Political Tarot, idea and design by Dan Glimne, illustrations by Gideon Salutskij. Printed by Roland Offset, Linköping, Sweden, 1997. 22 cards + 2 extra cards (double-sided, with text in Swedish) in cardboard sleeve. Size: 60 x 145 mm. Limited edition of 959 copies. Copyright ©1997 Moderaterna i Östergötland.
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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