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Added by: 01-05-2025

Egyptian playing cards (Russia)

Egyptian playing cards
Egyptian ancient history and mythology are so vast and interesting that they invariably attract new artists. But at the same time, such decks are practically not published in Egypt itself. Over many years of active collecting, I know of only one such deck of playing cards. Several decks dedicated to Egyptian themes have already been published in Russia, ...

Added by: 29-04-2025

Souvenir playing cards "Nu" (Russia)

Souvenir playing cards
A deck of designer playing cards "Nu" drawn and released by Karelian artist-designer Ivan Lisichkin in 2024. The cards were released in a small edition. https://www.behance.net/ivanlisichkin https://t.me/Nu_card https://vk.com/nu_card wzos2.design@gmail.com

Added by: 26-04-2025

Newspaper "Münchner Jugend" (Germany)

Newspaper
The more you learn about Europe and compare it with Russia, the more you are surprised. This deck of playing cards was published by the German newspaper "Münchner Jugend" in 1898!!! The first advertising decks from newspapers appeared in Russia 100 years later!!!

fantaisie "Boston de Flore" (France )

fantaisie
Very unusual cards with flowers and some sailboats. Look like some kind of fortune telling cards. Deck representing sections and divisions of botany. First published in 1820. Designer Louis-François-Henri (1754-1839). Publisher Louis-Henri Lefebure (Paris)

Tarok "Freischütz" (Germany)

Tarok
Tarot by the famous German publisher C. L. Wüst. First published in 1824. Among collectors of playing cards there is a dispute whether tarot can be classified as playing cards or is it a subspecies of tarot decks? I think that this dispute will never be finished. In my opinion, in style it is closer to playing cards, and in any case a good bridge for ...

French fortune telling Das Auge Gottes (France )

French fortune telling Das Auge Gottes
French fortune telling cards from 1860. First reprinted in 2025.

Pasquins Windkaart (Netherlands)

Pasquins Windkaart
A Dutch deck, very original and unusual, printed in 1720. It consisted of interesting engravings with pictures and text on each card. All texts can be easily translated into any language with advanced technology. First reprinted in 2025.

Germany Tarok from Frankfurt (Germany)

Germany Tarok from Frankfurt
Tarok was printed between 1840-1850 in Frankfurt, Germany. First reprinted in 2025.

Added by: 05-04-2025

Medical Playing Cards (Russia)

Medical Playing Cards
In Novosibirsk, in the 1990s-2010s, a newspaper called "Gazetka" was published. The content was mostly humorous, the newspaper collaborated with a huge number of cartoonists. Pocket calendars were issued as advertising, including in the form of decks of playing cards. This deck contains cartoons on medical topics by cartoonist Alexander Markelov.

Added by: 30-03-2025

Karten-Almanach für 1806 Transformational German playing cards (Germany)

Karten-Almanach für 1806 Transformational German playing cards
Transformational German playing cards Almanach, 1806. At the beginning of the 19th century, playing cards were extremely popular and a huge number of brilliant artists joined in drawing them. It was especially chic to draw original point cards, where the suit symbols would be part of the artwork. On each card "Characters of Greek Tragedy" Author Charlotte ...

Added by: 28-03-2025

Centaurus (Italy)

Centaurus
The Italian deck Centaurus was first published in Italy in 1910. Such beautiful pictures were loved by consumers and were reprinted many times.

White Palekh (Russia)

White Palekh
The masters of Palekh painting worked very fruitfully during the Soviet era. There were many illustrations based on folk tales, and they also painted plots of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's tales. There were also masters who painted socialist realism, so to speak, in step with the times - propaganda scenes from the lives of Soviet people, as well as heroic ...

Classic Greece (Greece)

Classic Greece
This deck is one of the old decks of playing cards issued in Greece before the country became a hyper-popular tourist destination. This deck has original card characters and Greek indices.

beer "Sibirskaya Korona" (Russia)

beer
Beer producers have initiated the release of a large number of advertising decks of playing cards. Many of these decks are gems of new design and card characters. This deck of advertising for the beer brand "Sibirskaya Korona" is one of such gems.

Circus (Russia)

Circus
An interesting deck of playing cards and pocket calendars at the same time. All the cards have photographs of circus buildings from the territory of the former USSR.

Bicalm (Germany)

Bicalm
Very original advertising cards for Bicalm sleeping pills. All the characters on the playing cards are sleeping or falling asleep. A great example of a creative approach to a given theme. If only all customers of advertising decks - the artist were given such an interesting task.

Added by: 27-03-2025

Philippines Joseph Bardou & Fils (Philippines)

Philippines Joseph Bardou & Fils
The longer I collect playing cards, the more interesting it becomes to find decks from exotic countries that produce playing cards very rarely. This is the only known deck from the Philippines. The publisher of these cards is cigarette paper manufacturer Joseph Bardou & Fils, and the deck was released in the distant 1880

Added by: 16-03-2025

Souvenir Ukrainian (Ukraine)

Souvenir Ukrainian
The cards were drawn by Lviv artist Oles Noga. First published by the company "Akvaton" in 1992. But... Since then, only 2 copies of uncut typographic sheets have reached collectors. The sheets are in terrible condition. No one knows of this deck in any other form. It was first reissued in 2025 in a restored form, thanks to a collector and part-time ...

Added by: 26-02-2025

Le grand Etteilla Jeu de cartomancie Tarot egyptien (France )

Le grand Etteilla Jeu de cartomancie Tarot egyptien
Old deck Le grand Etteilla Jeu de cartomancie Tarot egyptien. To be honest, I know almost nothing about tarot decks, it is not very clear why the tarot is Egyptian. The first publisher was Delorme in France. It published cards in the 1850-1890s.

Added by: 18-02-2025

Artist Zarubin Vladimir № 4 (Russia)

Artist Zarubin Vladimir № 4
The fourth deck of playing cards with drawings by Vladimir Zarubin. The artist was involved in animation, collaborated with Svyatozar Rusakov, the main artist of the cartoon Nu, pogodi! in collaboration with him, and began drawing for postcards in the 1960s. Later, Vladimir drew his stories alone and became famous for his drawings for postcards. People ...

Added by: 14-01-2025

Funny Circus: Trainers (Russia)

Funny Circus: Trainers
The genre of caricature flourished during the period when newspapers were a very significant part of the information space. Now, with the development of the Internet, humor has become more popular, a genre such as memes has appeared, it is no longer necessary to be able to draw well, it is enough to make a collage of ready-made pictures and come up with a ...

XXX playing cards (Germany)

XXX playing cards
I refer playing cards with pictures on the topic of sex to the section painted kama sutra. But it's a pity that some publishers are very greedy and order only a small part of the pictures from artists. In this deck, all the pictures on all suits are the same.

Xtreme curves Fhil Henderson (Russia)

Xtreme curves Fhil Henderson
Body positivity is a trendy phenomenon right now. All the cards feature gorgeous plump figures from artist Fhil Henderson.

Modern pin-up Carlo Pieroni (Russia)

Modern pin-up Carlo Pieroni
The pin-up genre attracts many contemporary artists. This deck features scenes with girls from Carlo Pieroni.

Santa Claus № 5 (Russia)

Santa Claus № 5
New Year is the only Soviet holiday that took root in the USSR and continues to be popular in modern times.

Added by: 12-01-2025

Jeu de Tarot animalier belge (Belgium)

Jeu de Tarot animalier belge
The tarok with animals was produced in different countries. I would call the drawing style popular, printing in 1755 was still at a level where it was possible to reproduce fairly rough graphic drawings. All the colored elements are hand-painted after printing using stencils.

Historical deck Romania (Romania)

Historical deck Romania
Our website has decks published in Romania, but the pictures on the cards are most likely taken from the free Internet, since there is a deck with the same pictures published in Russia. This is the first deck with historical figures of Romania. Scans provided by our friend, the propagandist of playing cards Jean Darquenne. The original deck can be bought ...

Giuoco del Passa Tempo Giuseppe M. Mittelli (Italy)

Giuoco del Passa Tempo Giuseppe M. Mittelli
An amazing fortune-telling deck from the publisher, and possibly the artist Giuseppe M. Mittelli. The engravings are mysterious and bizarre with mystical plots. First reissued after 1690.

Jeu de cartes de luxe inspiré du portrait de Paris dit impérial (France )

Jeu de cartes de luxe inspiré du portrait de Paris dit impérial
A classic French deck with full-length characters. Later decks cut off the legs and made mirror cards. This deck illustrates the "where the legs grow from" of deck design. The pun is very appropriate in this case.