Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
Prof. Franciszek Bunsch
Prof. Franciszek Bunsch, Polish playing-card designer.
Proverbs and Maxims
Naipe Infantil Gauchito children’s miniature playing cards with Proverbs and Maxims on the reverse,
Queen of Hearts
“Queen of Hearts” by Josie Callipari, winner of the Brian Tucker Accounting Desert Fantasia Award 2005
Quercia y Possi, Buenos Aires 1815-16
José Maria Quercia y Possi was an Italian immigrant who joined the Chilean Independence army. He set up a playing card factory in Argentina in 1815 known as "Fábrica de Buenos Aires".
Radisson Hotels
Playing cards for Radisson Hotels - Casinos del Estado - Victoria Plaza, Montevideo, Uruguay, c.2009.
Real Fábrica de Macharaviaya
This is the official Spanish National pattern of the 18th century. Design and production was controlled from Madrid as a source of national or regional revenue. The factory was located in the town of Macharaviaya, in the province of Málaga.
Regarding the designs of playing cards
The quality of playing card designs often deteriorates with time…
Reinholds Kasparsons
Reinholds Kasparsons, a popular Latvian illustrator of the day, designed this pack which was published as The Best Quality Playing cards No.1 in 1932.
Renaissance Playing Cards
Renaissance Playing Cards by Maxim Hurwicz, showing 54 different drawings spanning the years 1066 to 1400.
Ricardo Sopena
Argentina importing agent Ricardo Sopena, Corrientes 920, Buenos Aires
Robert Morden’s Playing Cards
The 52 Counties of England and Wales described as a pack of cards first published in London in 1676.
Roldan Tobacco Cards, Peru
Tobacco cards with miniature playing cards inset into top corners, printed by Litografía y Tipografía Fabbri Hermanos, for Roldan y Cia Tobacco, Lima, c.1895.
Romagnole pattern by Guglielmo Murari
Romagnole pattern by Guglielmo Murari c.1920
Romanian playing cards by Alf Cooke
Romanian playing cards, manufactured and exported by the Universal Playing Card Co., Leeds, in the 1930s.
Russian Constitutional Playing Cards, 1909
A rare American Russian political pack depicting events and moods in early 20th century Russia.
Russian Standard Playing Cards
Cards from an early version of a Russian standard woodblock and stencil pack of circa 1820.
Safe as Houses by Catherine Kelly
My current work evolved from using a pack of cards as a metaphor to explore the randomness of life and the luck of the draw.
Sardinian playing cards
Sardinian playing cards.
Scooby-Doo! playing cards for Hellmann’s Magic
Miniature Spanish-suited playing cards featuring Scooby-Doo! made specially for Hellmann’s.
Sebastian Comas y Ricart, Barcelona
“El Ciervo” standard Catalan-type pack made in Barcelona by Sebastian Comas y Ricart, c.1905-10.
Self-Guided Tarot by Cameo Victor
Human beings have always yearned to understand the experience of life. The knowledge that we seek is not really hidden, we each have to find it within ourselves.
Self-Nurturing Solitaire
Self-Nurturing Solitaire is a deck of cards designed to improve Self-Esteem.
Self-Nurturing Solitaire
Self-Nurturing Solitaire by Idelle Jones,
Sicilian playing cards by Antonio Monasta
"Il Leon" Sicilian playing cards, 40-card pack based on Spanish designs, made in Sicily by Antonio Monasta, probably 17th century.
Silk Inlaid Playing Cards for Charles I
Silk Inlaid Playing Cards for Charles I
Silver Cards from Peru
Spanish-suited silver cards, richly embellished and enamelled, from a former Spanish Viceroy in Peru, dated 1745.
Simeon Durá 1871-1940
Simeon Durá of Valencia was one of Spain's most distinguished playing card manufacturers, flourishing between 1871-c.1940.
Simultané
Simple geometric forms with an inner life and poetry emanating from the richness of colour, the musicality of rhythm, the vibrant breath of the execution...
Skat by Franciszek Bunsch
Skat pack designed by Franciszek Bunsch
Small Tuscan Pattern
Small Tuscan Pattern
South American Gaucho Playing Cards
Gaucho Playing Cards from South America
South German Engraver
Conforming to an archaic format of 52 cards with banner 10s, female 'Sotas', horsemen and kings, the pack is of interest on account of a number of other packs with similar characteristics surviving elsewhere, suggesting an archaic variant of the Spanish-suited pack.
South Sea Bubble
The South Sea Bubble Playing Cards were first published in London by Thomas Bowles in 1720. The cards bear satirical portrayals of the speculators involved in the South Sea Bubble of 1720, providing a unique contemporary record of the feverish atmosphere of the time, as well as the fashions of dress...
Souvenir Playing Cards
Argentina publishes many tourist souvenir packs, usually with colour pictures on each card, and with either Spanish suit signs, or else Anglo-american ones, in each corner.
Spanish Historical Characters playing cards, c.1896
Cards from the Spanish Historical Characters playing cards set printed by Litografía Madriguera (Barcelona), c.1896, which were inserted into packets of chocolate.
Spanish National Pattern
Probably originating in Spain in the seventeenth century or even earlier, this pattern became strongly established by the Catalan cardmakers Rotxotxo of Barcelona.
Spanish playing cards for Yerba Armiño
Spanish-suited playing cards for Yerba Armiño, anonymous manufacturer probably made in China.
Spanish suited pack for Nestlé
Spanish-suited pack produced by Chas Goodall & Son Ltd for South America.
Spanish-suited deck for the Estanco de Naipes del Perú
Spanish-suited playing cards printed for the Estanco de Naipes del Perú.
Standard and Non-standard Playing Cards
Standard playing cards are based upon traditional designs and are used for card games.
Swiss French Suited Playing Cards, c.1840
French-suited playing-cards in the Paris pattern appeared in Switzerland around the end of the sixteenth century, when many Lyonnais cardmakers were driven away by heavy taxes.
Swiss Mogul Cards, 1880-1890
English type 'Mogul' playing cards manufactured in Switzerland by John Müller for export to India, c.1880-1890.
Swiss Piquet Playing Cards, c.1850-60
Piquet playing-cards made by J. Müller, Diessenhofen, c.1850-60. The full-length court cards are following the French style.
Swiss Playing Cards by David Hurter, c.1830
David Hurter had begun to build up a playing card business in Schaffhausen during the late 18th century.
Swiss Regional Costumes Playing Cards, c.1890
This Swiss Regional Costume pack can be seen as an early form of tourist souvenir which subsequently developed into the photographic souvenir pack.
Swiss Scenic Ace Souvenir Cards, c.1850
Souvenir pack with Scenic Aces made by Müller (Diessenhofen), c.1850.
Swiss Scenic Ace Souvenir Cards, c.1860
Souvenir pack with Scenic Aces made by J. Müller (Diessenhofen), c.1860. The courts are conventional figures based on French designs.
Swiss Spanish-Suited Cards, c.1875
Spanish-suited playing cards manufactured by J. Müller for export to Latin American countries, c.1875.
T O Weigel, Leipzig, 1885
Cards from a pack designed by Ludwig Burger, 1885
Taller Fotolitográfico, Chile
Spanish suited pack made in Chile by Taller Fotolitográfico, inspired by Fournier's classic 'Castilian' design, c. 2000
Tarocco Milanesi by Lamperti (Milan) c.1850
Tarocco Milanesi by Lamperti (Milan) c.1850