It was interesting, writing for an audience of magicians rather than of collectors. I wrote the piece and, at the editors' request, scanned several playing cards from my collection to be used in the article.
The article ran in their December 2001 issue, which was largely devoted to non-magic uses of playing cards.
I thought perhaps some of the users here at UC might be interested in reading the article, so here are scans of it:
First, the issue's cover:
The article's first page:
Second page:
Third/last page:
