The Age of Dinosaurs playing cards
Dinosaurs from different ages and locations, with artwork by Virginijus Poshkus.
Including the Joker, there are 14 different dinosaurs featured in this pack. Apart from the single design on the Joker, the artist Virginijus Poshkus has depicted each dinosaur from four different angles. The dinosaurs have been given their common names, with additional information according to each suit: geologic age (S), descriptive name (D), family (H), and fossil sites (C). The back design features two dinosaurs in an imaginary, volcanic landscape. Rules are also included for a Happy Families-type game in which four Aces or four 2s, etc., have to be collected. See the box►



Above: The Age of Dinosaurs playing cards with artwork by Virginijus Poshkus. Made by Carta Mundi, Turnhout, Belgium, for U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT, USA, 1994. 52 cards + 1 Joker + 1 title card + 1 rules card in tuck box. Size: 57 x 88.5 mm. Copyright © 1994 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc.

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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