Bicycle Steampunk
Bicycle Steampunk playing cards with Gothic artwork by Anne Stokes, 2015.
Bicycle Steampunk playing cards with fantasy Gothic artwork by Anne Stokes, manufactured by U.S. Playing Card Co., 2015. A nice collector’s item! The jacks, queens, kings, aces and jokers are pictorial and the pip cards are stylised. The four suits are colour-schemed. See the Box►
Above: Bicycle Steampunk playing cards with Gothic artwork by Anne Stokes, manufactured by U.S. Playing Card Co., 2015.
By Matt Probert
Member since March 02, 2012
I have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards.
Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards.
Seeking more information about various unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards.
I describe my self as a playing card archaeologist, using detective work to identify and date obscure packs of cards discovered in old houses, flea markets and car boot sales.
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