A little late but here are three antique postcards wishing a happy new year with playing card motives. First one was sent in 1910, second one in 1928 and the third one is still unused, likely printed around 1925. Just a small selection of a tremendous amount of postcards that were printed with card ...

Die Spielkarte der feinen Welt, translated literally: "The playing card of the fine world" by F.A. Lattmann in Goslar, 1923 Wonderful Art Nouveau design, thankfully with OBox. Another variant of the QoD is known and shown here: https://www.wopc.co.uk/germany/lattmann/der-feinen-welt K1600_...

I'd love to see a picture of it in action! Is it similar to the band on the Venexiana Gold? Sure! It's the same concept, but by far not as fancy as those. I just cut ~25mm wide stripes from the short side of A4 copy paper. The length of these stripes suits the majority of the decks. Then I just wra...

kevork wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 9:40 pm At that point, I'd give it my own name and stick it on with a tiny post-it.

This is the way, but I avoid post-its. I cut little banderoles for my decks because I'm always worried about the adhesives eventually merging with the tuck box over the years.

Cartoon style art by Antonio Mingote (* 1919 - † 2012) Design inspired by his comic series(?) published under the name "Myr Ediciones" Printed by Fournier in 1968 with red and blue boxes/backs. A deck with spanish suits was also released in 1968 K1600_Scan_20240229.JPG K1600_Scan_20240229 ...

From time to time I'll post a few decks here, the theme is mixed and contains a bit of everything from ~1870 to ~2000s. The main focus is on antique/vintage non standard front designs and artwork as well as old advertising backs. Starting with this surrealistic Artwork from Taro Okamoto (* 1911 - † ...

Hey everyone! I've been occasionally lurking here without an account and finally decided to create one. I'm atzenhofer, a collector from Germany, focused on vintage and antique decks with unusual/custom fronts and old advertising backs. While browsing here i already discovered awesome posts, includi...