| The playing-cards FAQ | The FAQ from the playing-cards mailing list. The list is for discussion of all aspects of playing-cards. To join the mailing list, simply send a mail message to majordomo@cs.man.ac.uk with a blank subject line and the body of the message saying subscribe playing-cards |
| Card Games | John McLeod's web site giving rules of card games from around the world, and links to other sites about card games. |
| Bibliography | A selection of books about playing-cards |
| Playing-card Tax Stamps | An authoritative guide to sources of information, compiled by Peter Endebrock |
| International Playing-Card Society | Worldwide association of people interested in all aspects of playing-cards. |
| 52 plus Joker | American society for playing-card collectors. |
| L'Accart | French Association of Collectors of Playing-Cards and Tarots |
| Talon | Austrian and Hungarian Playing-Card Society |
| Bube Dame König | German Playing-Card Society |
| Cartophilia Helvetica | Swiss playing-card association |
| English Playing-Card Society | Society for collectors and students of English playing-cards. |
| Brussels Euro Joker Club | Society for collectors of complete decks, jokers and playing-card backs. |
| Asociación Argentina Coleccionistas de Naipes | Society for collectors and students of Argentine playing-cards. |
| Contact details of playing-card societies | List of contact addresses for playing-cards societies worlwide. |
| Addresses of Museums | A worldwide list of museums with significant collections of playing-cards |
| Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer | Web site of the playing-card museum at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris. Note: museum closed from 1st to 31st August 2009. |
| Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum | Playing-card museum at Leinfelden-Echterdingen, near Stuttgart, Germany |
| Spielkartenmuseum Altenburg | Playing-card museum in the castle at Altenburg, near Leipzig, Germany |
| Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart | Belgian National Playing-Card Museum at Turnhout |
| Arabako Fournier Karta Museoa / Museo Fournier de Naipes de Álava | Fournier Playing-Card Museum, Vitoria, Spain |
| Spielkartenmuseum Jean Dieudonné | Jean Dieudonné Playing-Card Museum at Grevenmacher, Luxembourg |
| Institut für Spielforschung und Spielpädagogik | Based at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, this institute publishes the journal "Homo Ludens". |
| Museum and Archive of Games | The web site of this museum at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada includes a section on playing-cards. |
| The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards | Web site of the City of London trade guild for playing-card makers, founded in 1628. |
| Name | Web site | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Yasha Beresiner | InterCol London | Dealer in playing-cards, books, prints and ephemera. Free valuation service. |
| Edi Brum | Brumoli's Homepage | Hobbies, including playing-cards collecting, and links |
| Peter Endebrock | Peter Endebrock's Home Page | Pages on cards from Hannover, Tax stamps, Playing-card societies, publications, and images of cards from Peter Endebrock's collection. |
| Evgeny Grygorenko | Russian Playing Cards | Russian and other playing-cards for exchange with other collectors |
| David Parlett | David Parlett (games etc.) | Includes pages on Skat, historical card games, and original card games including the well-known game of Ninety-Nine. |
| Johan Pettersson | Johan´s Playing Cards Site | Introduces a system for describing the condition (quality) of playing-cards, and a multilingual dictionary (language-key) of playing-card terms. |
| Christian de Ryck | christian.deryck.free.fr | A small playing-cards collection. It will enhance later on pattern comparison, an animal joker database, a cardmaker brands table, and some miscellaneous pages. |
| Jánoska Antal | Playing-card Collection | |
| Lo Scarabeo | Wonderful Tarot Tarocco Meraviglioso | This on-line Art Gallery presents magnificent Tarot paintings and Tarot decks produced in limited editions by Lo Scarabeo. All these works, realized by great Masters and presented by Giordano Berti, are printed on quality paper and beautifully packaged. |
| Steve Shedden | Ivory Graphics | UK supplier of custom playing-cards with personalised backs and/or faces. |
| John Sings | Games et al | Dealer in old playing-cards and games. |
| Arno Sinselmeijer | The Amsterdam Collector's Show | In the showroom, some of the favorite decks in the collection can be seen, and in the trading room some decks are offered for sale. |
IPCS members are invited to let us know if you would like your home page listed here, or to suggest other links that should be included on this page.