Politicards 1984
Politicards 1984 with caricatures by Donald Gates, published by the Kamber Group, USA.
Each card in this pack depicts a humorous caricature of a political or media personality in the 50th U.S. presidential election of November 1984 in which the incumbent Republican president Ronald Reagan defeated Democratic former vice president Walter Mondale in a landslide victory. The pack was published by the Kamber Group, and the drawings are by the artist Donald Gates. There are two jokers and an extra “political scorecard” detailing the names and roles / affiliations of those portrayed. See the box►
Above: Politicards 1984 with caricatures by Donald Gates, published by the Kamber Group, USA, 1984.
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By Peter Burnett
Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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