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Archives - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. Posted by Adam Wintle. February 25, 2011 at 04:08pm. Nine Lives Playing Cards. Bull; Tuesday, September 13, 2016. Nine Lives Playing Cards designed by Annette Abolins, 2016. Playing Card Oracles - Alchemy Edition. Bull; Tuesday, September 13, 2016. Playing Card Oracles Alchemy Edition Divination Deck designed by C.J. Freeman, 2nd edition, 2014. Legends No.202 Egyptian Edition. Bull; Tuesday, September 13, 2016. Four Point Playing Cards. Trans-Si...

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Promote your Kickstarter Project - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. Promote your Kickstarter Project. Promote your Kickstarter playing-card project with the World of Playing Cards. Please tell us about your new Kickstarter playing card project including a brief biography of the artist(s), sources of inspiration and insight into the design process. Please email additional images to adam@wopc.co.uk. Answer the maths question for spam prevention.

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History - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. Playing cards arrived in Europe the late 14th century and rapidly became a part of popular culture. Antique playing cards are like a visit to the local museum and evoke images of past eras and ways of life and also demonstrate archaic technology or production methods. So what do the oldest surviving playing cards look like? 1: Playing Cards and their History: An Introduction and some links to other sites. 16th century cards discovered in Peru.

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Advertising & Promotional - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. Closely following the development of visual advertising in general, such as on labels, packaging and posters, advertising playing cards are used in pubs and cafés and are a popular publicity item. Some packs are widely distributed, others are more exclusive. In some cases single cards are collected from inside the advertised product to complete a full set. Advertising and publicity playing cards manufactured by Joker S.A. The Kings show American...

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Conjuring and Magic - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. Conjuring and Magic Cards. Posted by Adam Wintle. Conjuring and Magic Cards. He first magicians were those who attained a special knowledge of healing and poisonous herbs; or perhaps the magi. Thanks to Justin Monehen, Magic Consultant, Marvin’s Magic). By a mixture of false shuffling and sleight of hand, the cards can be fanned out and made to appear to change from figures to pips. Cards like these were known in Holland, Germany, France, Po...

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Card Games - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. 4: Some Card Games. Yet another strand of the playing card world is that of card games, packs of cards usually designed to play just one game. The commonest are Happy Families and similar collecting games, and Snap, but the variety is as great as in ordinary playing cards. An ‘interesting and instructive’ Victorian card game showing Queen Victoria’s extended family connections, 1896. Albert Heijn’s Boffie Kwartetspel. Baraja Infantil made in Cuba.

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Manufacturers - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. When movies, radio and television first appeared playing card manufacturers were worried. But people still had plenty of leisure time and card playing continued to increase. Today’s electronic devices, computers, the Internet and online gaming have changed everything and many former playing card manufacturers have closed down or been taken over by larger corporations. The older manufacturers are now a reminder of bygone days. The American Bank N...

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Shop - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. A variety of classic, vintage and antique collectible playing cards from around the world to add depth to your collection. Woolley and Co: Second Harrys. Pound; 155.00. Second Harrys manufactured by Woolley and Co., London, c.1877, 52 cards in original wrapper. The Golden Egg Game, c.1860. Pound; 125.00. Mid-nineteenth century Victorian children's card game titled ‘The Golden Egg Game’, c.1860. 2 Hand Drawn Transformation Cards. Pound; 120.00.

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Manufacturing Processes - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. 41: A Guide to Dating Playing Cards. Dating is a particularly tricky but very interesting problem to tackle and there are many pitfalls. The manufacture of the cardboard used for playing cards contains a number of interesting processes including mingling, pasting and drying. Colour lithography was invented in 1798 by a Bavarian actor and playwright named Alois Senefelder (1771-1834). It is based on the principle that oil and water do not mix.

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Featured Articles - The World of Playing Cards

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Return to Home Page. Your Cart: £0.00. Dr Ken Lodge's Blog. Playing cards have enormous educational value, with a long history. And many diverse types and graphical styles from around the world. Peter Wood’s 2000Pips transformed playing cards (1999) reveals the artist’s love of nature. A Pair of Transformation Packs. Two similar but fascinatingly different hand-drawn transformation decks by the same artist, c.1875. Anonymous Spanish Suited pack, c.1720. Anonymous archaic Spanish Suited pack, c.1720.