Images from http://thecontaminated.com/cards-of-life-and-death/
Czech Nationalistic cards by Emanuel Neumann, c.1895
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/czech/index.html
Hand painted Dasavatara Ganjifa cards, c. 1950
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/india/dasavatara.html
Image from http://www.wopc.co.uk/japan/unsun.html
15th century Italian playing cards
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/italy/italia.html
The Book of Trades by Jost Amman, 1588
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/germany/ammon.html
Images from http://photography-arena.blogspot.com/2008/10/ukraine-human-feature-playing-cards.html
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/germany/ambraser.html
Waddington’s Barribal Series, 1933
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/waddingtons/barribal.html
‘Unique’ playing cards by Ian Roth
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/ianroth.html
Pippoglyph playing cards by Ben Crenshaw, 2004
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/pippoglyph.html
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/otc/aboutea.html
Images from http://www.wopc.co.uk/reviews/thedeal.html
Image from http://adnil.com/CARDS/jong.html
Invisible Playing Cards by Peter Woudt, 2002
Image from http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Invisible%20Playing%20Cards_10451_10001_15115
Frank Lloyd Wright playing cards by Frank Lloyd Wright
Images from http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/golden-klimt/index.shtml
Images from http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/aleister-crowley-thoth/index.shtml
And finally a very strange Chinese deck I picked up, with images of Chinese aristocracy. They also have little educational blurbs on each card, and apparently had a little trouble with the English translations.
4 Comments
[...] a contributor for the blog Creative Fluff, has found 19 unique decks of playing cards from around the world. Some of the decks are for sale, most of them aren’t. I have no idea [...]
very confusing cards… but great design either way
Wow these are beautiful cards… very cool thanks for the list
Although I really do not get enough time to play cards, I really do love the artistic expression possibilities they present. Very interesting ones to me: Life and Death – great artwork; Invisible Cards – just like the concept; Asian Inspired as I really do love a lot of Asian designs – would love to know what they actually say.
Good find.