♠ ♥ The Card Collection ♣ ♦


My mom started collecting playing cards around the time my family went to Italy for a year in 1958. The whole collection has suddenly come into my possession. I thought it would be fun to share this on the web with anyone who cares. Anyone who knows more about a deck should email me, and I can add the information. Many thanks to Wolfgang Altfahrt for information on the Austrian decks and the many others who have shared their knowledge.

Here is an interesting site that explains all kinds of card games, including regional games played with foreign suits.

Transformation Decks

Arty Russian Deck
Palladin Transformation
Key to the Kingdom
The Deck of Cards
Wild!
Art for the Earth
Lucky Stack
2000 Pips
Toscano
Colors of the Four Seasons
Art Quilt Deck

North America

Jeu de Cartes Québecois

Blacks Factor
Pippoglyph
Analog
Frozen Court
Cards of Color
Dealer's Choice
Coricidin Ad Cards
Northern Plains Indian Cards
Arpak Deck
2000 Politicards
New Orleans Carnival
Mod Deck
Queen of Sheba
Futurama
Virginia Slims
Reserve Casino
Loony Tunes
1970s Hallmark Cards
More Hallmark
Opera Characters
Peanuts
1888 Campaign
Round Playing Cards
Old Met
Standard Christmas
Death on Cigarettes
Death on Drugs
Crooked Deck
Fortune Telling Cards
Grateful Dead
Halloween
American Heritage
Ancient Girlie Cards

Asia
Japanese Deck
Japanese Deck
Angel Roaring 20s (?) Cards
Angel "Flora"

Character in Water Margin I
Character in Water Margin II
Dream of Red Mansions
Shihu
Mysterious East I
Mysterious East II

Turkish
Jacob's Bible Cards
Indonesian Shadow Puppets

Europe
Sample Card
Polish Deck
Czechoslovakian
Hungarian
Renovation 2000
Lilliput
Small Swiss Cards
Swiss Souvenir Deck

Fournier America
Fournier Black Pack
Fournier Romance Espagnol
Fournier Ancient Civilizations
Fournier Naval Powers
Fournier Trajes Franceses 1850
Fournier Far East
Fournier Allegories and Myths

Arabic Playing Cards
Gilbert and Sullivan
Simpson Picadilly
Scottish Legends
Kyd's Pickwick Playing Cards
Waddington Shakespearean Cards
Poetry Patience

Greek Mythology
Greek Deck
Royal Cruise Line

Masenghini Circus
Italian Cats
Firenze Souvenier Deck

25 Ans AprèsGrimaud Jules Verne
Michel Ange
Grimaud Knights of the Round Table
Grimaud 1900
Jeu Napolean
Grimaud Provences de France
Grimaud Jeu de'An Deux
Grimaud Jeu Japonais
Grimaud Amoureux
Plain French Deck
Dusserre Jeu Equestre Louis XIV
Dusserre Jeu des Philosophes
Dusserre Jeu Louis XIII
Dusserre Pucelle

Piatnik 2436: Bjørn Wiinblad
Piatnik: Glorious America
Piatnik 2143: Japan
Piatnik 2141: Arab
Piatnik 2138: Kaiser Jubiläum
Piatnik 2445: Shakespeare
Piatnik 2137: Tudor Rose
Piatnik 2130: Rococo
Carta Mundi Oliphant Deck from Holland
German
German
German
Piatnik 517: Bridge for Scandanavia

Decks with Standard Foreign Suits

Italian:
Siciliane
Romagnole
Triestine
Lombarde
Piacentine
Bergamasche
Trevigiane
Napoletane
Fiorentine
Canasta Special

German:
German by ASS
German with Olympics Logo
Salzburger
Swiss
Unusual Swiss
Czech
Piatnik 1831
German by Schmid

Spanish:
Baraja Ibero Americana
Dali Poker Deck
Regular Spanish Deck
Another Spanish One

Russian
Russian

Chinese:
Mah Jong Cards
Chinese Domino Cards

Japanese Hanafuda

Cards with Non-standard Suits

Macintosh Deck
Grateful Dead Liquid Blue Cards
Royal Flash Playing Cards
Christmas Cards
Czech Story (?) Cards
Czech "Znaky Mest"

Tarot and Fortune Telling
Czech Fortune-Telling
Czech Fortune-Telling II
Dragon Mystique
La Vera Sibilla

Tarocchi del Rinascimento
Tarot of Transition
Tarocco Siciliano
Bosch Tarot
Tarocco Bizarro
Kaffehaus Tarock
Dal Negro Tarocco
Alice in Wonderland
Oswald Wirth
Grand Etiella
Ziguener Tarot
Epinal
Scala d'Oro
Classic Tarot

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