Tuxedo playing cards
Stylish ‘Tuxedo’ playing cards with animal faces created by Natalia Silva, USA, 2016.
“Tuxedo” is a fun and stylish deck of playing cards created by Natalia Silva via Kickstarter, inspired by one of her friends - Pablo Apablaza from New Jersey, who thought that it would be awesome to design a classic deck with the face cards wearing Tuxes. Court cards are indeed wearing tuxedos, but are portrayed with animal faces, such as wolf, bulldog, tiger, gorilla, etc. The aces and pips too have been dressed with evening wear accessories – ties, bow ties, shirt collars, top hat and shoes. In all, a very elegant and attractive pack. See the box►
Above: Tuxedo playing cards created by Natalia Silva (with inspiration from Pablo Apablaza) via Kickstarter, 2016.
• See the original Kickstarter campaign • Natalia Silva has created other attractive packs such as Russian folk art and Calaveras de Azúcar►
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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