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The Journal

See also the consolidated alphabetical index of articles

Vol. I (1972 - 73) (reprinted 1978 - 80)

1. Lenthall's Broadsheet; Rimington-Wilson sale 1971; Glanz's "Military Tarot" - available online

2. Fortune-telling cards (I); Classification & Terminology; The Rosenwald tarots; French suited Austrian pattern; Lenthall I (Heraldry); Mamluk playing cards.

3. Boiardo's Tarocchi; Lenthall II ("Winstanley"); Icelandic chess cards; Fortune-telling cards (II); Terminology; Spanish National pattern

4. Rowley's cards; History of Piatnik; Fortune-telling cards (III); Lenthall III ("Armada"); Terminology; Seasons pattern (I)

Vol. II (1973 - 74) (issues 1 and 2 reprinted 1976 - 77)

1. Kimberley's cards; Lenthall IV (Map/"Morden"); Hungarian card-makers; Cicognara; Classification & Terminology; Seasons pattern (II)

2. Indian cards (I); Mamluk cards (review); Lenthall V (Astronomical); The Knave (I)

3. The Order of Tarot Trumps (I); Lenthal VII (Mathematical Cards); The Spielkarten Museum, Altenburg; The Knave (II); Memory Cards; The PLaying Cards of India (II); Reviews: Reprint of Horr and Jessel bibliographies, The Dragons of Portugal, The Playing Card (Hoffmann)

4. The Cary Collection; Tarot Cards - Market Analysis; Lenthall VI (Geographical Cards); The English Pattern; The Paris Pattern in Exile; The order of Tarot Trumps (II)

Vol. III (1974 - 75)

1. The Moxon Family; Exhibition in Vienna; The Paris Pattern Progeny; The Sopron / Oedenberg Pattern; Sicilian Tarocchi; Latin suit-system

2. The Playing-Cards of Iceland (I); The Spanish Captain; Playing-Cards and Money; The Playing-Cards of Vital Berthin; Standard Pattern F200 (XP8); Card Games: Their Rules and History; The Royal Masonic Playing-Cards; Lenthall VIII (Geometrical Cards); Thoughts on the Albertina Exhibition

3. The Prussian Pattern; Jass; Suit-Signs of Indian Playing-Cards; The Playing-Cards of Iceland (II); Review: Ettinghausen - Further Comments on Mamluk Playing-Cards

4. When the Fighting Stopped; Printing Methods in Playing-Card Manufacture; Two Tarot Studies Related (I); The Playing-Cards of Iceland (III); Hachi-Hachi; 18th and 19th Century Cardmakers in Hungary; Lenthall IX (Cosmographical Cards)

Vol. IV (1975 - 76)

1. The History of Playing-Cards in Belgium (I); In Search of Cards; The Playing-Cards of Iceland (IV); Cego; Two Tarot Studies Related (II); The Neapolitan Pattern

2. The 1975 IPCS Convention at Leinfelden; Deutsches Spielkartem Museum Leinfelden; The History of Playing-Cards in Belgium (II); The Visconti-Sforza Cards in the Cary Collection; Correspondence: Palermo fresco correction; Makers of Playing-Cards in the Netherlands; Pattern Numbers

3. German suited hunting cards and single-figure cards of the Prussian pattern; At Barbara and the Tower; Notes on the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg; Lenthall X (Cookery and Pastry); Book reviews (Beal: Playing Cards and their Story; Cavendish: The Tarot); The History of Playing-Cards in Belgium (III); The Spanish origins of the modern Sarde pack; The Numismatica Sale; Another Sale of a Different Era.

4. The Fool in the Tarot; Ulti; Style and the Spanish Pattern; The Design of the Standard Playing-Card; Lenthall XI (Carving Cards); Naipes Españoles (review)

Vol. V (1976 - 77)

1. The exhibition in Amsterdam; Lenthall XII (British); A Roman Pattern?; Book Review (François: Histoire de la Carte à Jouer; Style and the Spanish Pattern; Tibetan and Mongol Playing-Cards; In Tudor Times.

2. Annual General Meeting, Oxford; History of the Deutsches Spielkarten Museum; Lenthall XIII (Historiographical); Romania today; A further note on Thomas Tuttell; More about Cicognara; Standard patterns: Prager Doppel Deutsche

3. Classification by Numbers; Spanish Court Cards; Note on the second Viennese Playing-Card Auction; Sioux Indian Playing-Cards; Jeux publicitaires des Editions J.C. Dusserre; Rosenfeld: Zur Geschichte der Spielkarten (review); Boris Mandrovsky (obituary); Lenthall XIV (Grammatical) (I)

4. Bertarelli Collection; Kongresskarte; Reversis; Lenthall XIV (Grammatical) (II); Hofämterspiel; Translucent cards; Turnhout Playing cards (reviews)

Vol. VI (1977 - 78)

1. Trappola; Redating the Lenthall Broadside; Lenthall XV (Arithmetical); Aurelia Games Index (review)

2. Reconstructed English Courts of c.1605; Lenthall XVI (Proverb); Reformbestrebung Spielkartenmacher nach 1871 (I); Cartes à Jouer et Caricatures Politiques

3. The Naksha game of Bishnupur; German Tax Stamps after 1878; L'Aluette oe le Jeu de la Vache (Borvo) (review)Das Kartenspiel des Oberdeutscher Stechers (review); Reformbestreubung Spielkartenmacher nach 1871 (II); Lenthall XVIII (Delightful); Classification Committee progress report

4. Lombardy Tax-stamps; Jos Amman's Influence (I); Tressette rules; Chartæ Lussoriæ Juridicæ (Murner's cards - in German)

Vol. VII (1978 - 79)

1. The Influence of Amman on Card Design; Lenthall XVIII (Fortune Telling); Nouveaux Jeux Publicitaires et à Vocation Publicitaire des Editions J.C.Dusserre; Chaucer and Playing-Cards; Shakespearian Playing-Cards; The Encyclopedia of Tarot (Kaplan) (review)

2. Classification of Spanish Playing-Cards; Schafkopf rules; Lenthall XIX (Frost Fair); Revisionary Note (Indian Cards); A Political Pack of 1902-5; An Exhibition and Meeting in Vught, Holland; Comments on "German Tax Stamps after 1878"; A Handful of History (book review)

3. The 1978 Convention in Zürich; Playing-Card Manufacture in the Schaffhausen Area; Introduction of Playing-Cards into Spanish America; A Present from Douglas (Isle of Man); History of Playing-Cards - an anniversary; Lenthall XX (Instructive); Correspondence - Playing Cards Improved; Die Spanische Herkunft der Spielkarte (review)

4. In Search of Standard Patterns; Legal Tender; The Encyclopedia of Tarot (Kaplan) (review); Tarot Cards (Wowk) (review); Collecting English Playing-Cards (review); Lenthall XXI (Royal); Correspondence - Edward IV

Vol. VIII (1979 - 80)

1. Saxon patterns; Cartiers en Suisse romande; Lenthall XXII (Forest)

2. Naqsh & Ganjifa cards; The Paris pattern Progeny (XP patterns) (I); Lenthall XXIII (Pastime); Earliest English reference

3. The Paris pattern Progeny (II); Modern Chinese card-games; The Ace in early German-suited packs; History of A.S.S.; Lenthall XXIV (Love)

4. The Society's aims; Oberrhein and Switzerland in the development in playing-cards; Playing-cards in Denmark; Viterbesi pattern.

The Playing-Card

See also the consolidated alphabetical index of articles

Vol. IX (1980 - 81)

1. Early Boston makers - Whitney, Crehore & Foord; Early tarots - Copies etc.; German tax-stamps; Viterbesi pattern

2. Castello Sforzesco early cards (I); Photographing cards; The Knavery of the Rump

3. Chess and playing-cards; Ganjifeh and Cards in Iran; Castello Sforzesco early cards (II)

4. Turnhout's "Cartes Françaises"; Early 19th cent. Milanese cards; Les Cartes à Jouer (used for labels); Photography of engraved and woodcut cards; Kaiserjass (review); Knavery of the Rump and Castello Sforzesco cards (letters)

Vol. X (1981 - 82)

1. Jean/Jonas Fouquet; Jobs-Hieronymus-Spielkarte; Sylvia Mann's "discontinuity thesis" challenged; Classification of "dragon-ace" cards

2. Modern Japanese wrappers; Collection (a new Tarot game); Defence of discontinuity

3. Magic cards; Early history of Tarot cards-(printed under a wrong title); Lenthall XII (British) - a new find; Taxation on Tuscan cards, 17th century to Unification

4 Piedmontese Tarocchi - a Bologna & Belgium link (J.Mcleod); L'histoire des toutes premières cartes en France; Austrian tax-stamps; Early Persian playing-card images; Hyakunin-isshu and Unsun; Hungarian miniature cards

Vol. XI (1982 - 83)

1. Viterbesi pattern; 16th century Tarot cards; English standard pattern; Tarot Iconography; Carta Mundi family tree; Hohenzollern-Karte; Origin and evolution of cards

2. American Political playing-cards; Lenthall I (Heraldry) - re-identified; Woodcuts for Erhard Schoen's pack; Reviews of six publications by Rudolf von Leyden

3. Lithography Terminology, language problems; Cards of south-east Asia (Chinese suited etc.); Kimberley and miniature playing-cards (a letter)

4. Kvitlah - a Jewish card-game; Kaiser-Spiel in Switzerland; Silver playing-cards in Brussels; Lithography terminology; Early Dragon Cards

Vol. XII (1983 - 84)

1&2. Combined 64 pp Issue. Playing-card artists; De Poli? (Paris pattern courts' names); Black Peter & other children's card games; Unsun & Ombre; Das Tarockspiel in der Schweiz; Fragments of 16th century German cards re-united

3. Japanese literature on Unsun; Card tax in the Netherlands; Cary catalogue, De Speelkaart, and Bube, Dame, König (reviews)

4. Brussels Cardmakers; Gambling in the Netherlands; Les Débuts et le Développement du Tarot en France (XVIe - XVIIe siècles)

Vol. XIII (1984 - 85)

1. The History of the Paris pattern; Turnhout card-making techniques

2. Worshipful Company cards; Preußischen Bild; "Dragon" cards found in Antwerp; Italian card-makers' backs; Thomas de la Rue - February 1865

3. XP Patterns and Turnhoutse Speelkaarten; Le Jeu de Cartes (old rules); British cards since 1880; Die Jagdsemmelkarten

4. Russian playing cards up to 1917; De Poli unmasked; Double-figure French patterns

Vol. XIV (1985 - 86)

1. Viéville's & de Hautot's Tarots; Hot Chocolate and Spanish cards; Three Altenburg playing-card designers; Silver playing-cards; Tarock mit Französischen Farben

2. Hunting cards; A 15th century Hunting pack (1); De Poli unmasked further ; Kartenspiel mit Eselkopf-Maskerade und Phantasie-Farben (c1540); Gerhard Gossmann

3. "Padovano" playing cards; A 15th century Hunting pack (II); A Spanish translucent pack; The first American cards?; Navagraha (Nine Planets) Ganjifa cards

4. Echigobana poems; Moxon's Geographical cards; Camden playing-cards, Matchbox cards of Spain; Les Sujets des figures d'Atout du Tarot de Visconti-Sforza (I)

Vol. XV (1986 - 87)

1. Mantegna "Tarot"; A rare Steamship deck; Les Sujets des figures d'Atout du Tarot de Visconti-Sforza (II); The oldest Leipzig playing-cards; A Kurofuda card game

2. Italian cards (Pratesi I); 18th century Japanese card makers; The Anchor sign on German cards; South American Amerindian cards; Collectionner les cartes à jouer

3. Schweizer Souvenirspiel von C.L.Wüst; Italian cards (Pratesi II); Spanish cards found in 1574; Lakeland playing-cards; Tarot Symbolism - Book review and discussion

4. L'hombre (I); "Moorish " sheet of playing cards; Italian cards (Pratesi III)

Vol. XVI (1987 - 88)

1 16th cent. Antwerp makers; L'hombre (II), De la Rue 1832 - 1952; Italian cards (Pratesi IV)

2. The Goldschmidt "Sun"; A.D.Willis - New Zealand card-maker; L'hombre (III); Japan-Australia link; Mumliswil card-makers; Italian cards - comments

3. "Infirrera" cards; Jass playing in Switzerland; Italian cards (Pratesi V); The Guildhall "Sun"; Distribution of Mekuri cards; Names of French court cards

4. Cheating in Japan; Basler Fasnachtskarten; 16th century Seville card-backs; Juan Maldonado; Paraphernalia

Vol. XVII (1988 - 89)

1. Les cartes de Pieter Mefferdt; Bohemian Bulka - Trappola link; Italian cards (Pratesi VI)

2. Black Peter Again - But Different ; Hungarian Playing-card stamps 1850 - 1950; Tarots featuring animal designs; The Lance and the Fountain: some variant forms of the world; Italian Cards - new discoveries (Pratesi VII); A Card Game on Silver Plates

3. The Steele Manuscript; Ronciglione: Playing cards of a XIII century Italian state; Spielkarten Uwe Volker Segeth (review); Iconografía de la Barja Española; Were Cards printed in England in the Fifteenth Century?; Ein Joker aus Krakau; Italian Cards (Pratesi VIII)

4. The Portuguese suit-system; Spanish cards; Silver cards; Italian cards (Pratesi IX)

Vol. XVIII (1989 - 90)

1. The Goldschmidt Tarots; The earliest Spanish playing-cards; Hungarian Collections (I); English duty evasion; Italian cards (Pratesi X - part I)

2. Italian Cards (Pratesi X - part II); Hungarian collections (II); Brother Johannes; Peter Meffert; Fynste Java Speelkaarten; News from 1900; Review of the IPCS (I)

3. Review of the IPCS (II); In the Beginning...; Correspondence - Johannes, Marziano; A Lattmann Sample Book; : The Kwitlech Cards of Galician Jews (I)

4. The Kwitlech Cards of Galician Jews (II); Les Cartes de la Révolution (review); How to Identify Prints (Gascoigne), Old and Curious Playing Cards (Morley) (reviews); Über die Anfänge der Spielkarten im Königreich Polen der XV und XVI Jahrhunderts; Italian Cards - New Discoveries

Vol. XIX (1990 - 91)

1. John Bernström; Italian cards (Pratesi XII); Pocci's cards; Lattmann's factory and products

2. Udinesi cards; "Archaic" Italian cards; Pochspiel (I); Italian cards (Pratesi XIII - Cucu)

3. Pochspiel (II); Sammlung Sylvia Mann; Cambio etc. (I); Hungarian collections (III)

4. Pochspiel (III); Cambio(II); "Archaic" Italian cards - correction; Map cards; The Oxford Guide to Card Games & All Cards on the Table (reviews); Breslau discovery

Vol. XX (1991 - 92)

1. Evasion of Stamp Duty in 19th century (I); Philippines - Primitive Cards; Das Spiel von Arundhatî und der sieben Rsi; Cambio (III); Cimino family of card-makers

2. Evasion of Stamp Duty in 19th century (II); F.G.Baumgärtner - Kartenfabrikant des Industrie-Comptoirs Leipzig; Kimberley of Birmingham; Modern Korean cards and Japan

3. Portraits en Espagne avant 1800; German-suited Children's packs

4. Preference in Russia; Ashta Dikapala Ganjifa cards; 15th cent. Spanish cards; Marchioness

Vol. XXI (1992 - 93)

1. On the Origins of the Woodcut; To Padavano, The Card-Maker, Venice 7th July 1541; New Documents from Palermo; The Tyrol Pattern

2. Portrait de Rouen No 2 ou portrait anglais?; Culture in 18th Century England; The Aonikenk Playing-Cards; Paper and Printing in Europe Correspondence); Early American Joker

3. Dauphiné Cards; Spielkarten (review); A.D. Willis; Playing-Cards in Venice in the early 1800s; Chartarius Martinus Skorupka, Cards of 1595 & the Silesian Cards of 1547

4. Zwickauer Spielkarten...; Altdeutsche Spielkarten 1500 - 1650 (review); Portraits en Espagne (suite); Florentine Cardmakers and Concession Holders (1477 - 1751)

Vol. XXII (1993 - 94)

1. Johann Lucas versus Daniel Pueschel; G. Gluck - Card Manufacturer at Liège, 1857; Wüst Connections; Dutch Regional Costumes depicted on Playing-Cards

2. Chaqui and Partui; Single-Figure Saxon Pattern; One of Wüst's American Connections; Trumf På Hand (review); Der Gestohlene Rosen-König Von 1462

3. 'Aleas commutare ...'; Tressett in Russia; Playing Cards in Sweden; Owcy Glowa

4. not issued.

Vol. XXIII (1994 - 95)

1. La bassette, entre règlementation et répression; A New Set of Aonikenk Playing-Cards; Dr. Helmut Rosenfeld (obituary); Playing Cards found in Lincoln's Inn; Latin Suit Systems; Il Mondo E L'Angelo; How cards were made in Padua in 1664

2. The 'Money' Pack and a Gambling Game of the Hakka; Un inventaire de 'moules' de cartier en 1701; An old Danish manufacturer of Playing-Cards; Pier Leone Ghezzi

3. Essai de généalogie de portrait de Paris; From Innsbruck to Venice: A Pattern's Trip; A Russian Woodcut; Cards by Jehan Faucil; Les Loix du Jeu

4. 'Spanish' Cards made in Belgium; Sylvia Mann: a Remembrance and an Appreciation; über das Sächsische Doppelbild; The Aztecs and Playing-Cards in 16th Century Mexico

Note: From here onwards The Playing-Card and Playing-Card World were combined and issued as The Playing-Card six times a year.

Vol. XXIV (1995 - 96)

1. Sigmundt Beck's Playing-Cards in the Czech National Museum; Casino from Nowhere to Vaguely Everywhere; Giocatori di Carte in Inediti Affreschi Lombardi del '400

2. Le Coucou en France; IPCS London Convention; Portrait de Paris after World War II; Laurence Alt (obituary)

3. Brag in Literature and Life 1; Italian-suited Cards: The Trentine Pattern; The Swedish Connection of the Spielkartenfabrik von C. L. Wüst 1811 - 1927; Los Naipes de Cadiz (review)

4. Brag in Literature and Life 2; Kultur und Kunstgeschichte der Spielkarte (review); Liuk Fu, Cháng Pái and Other East Asian Trick-Taking Games; Playing-Cards as Lining for Drawers

5. Playing-Cards in Lucca; The Playing-Card Workshops of Sawantwadi; Bombay or Vienna?; Should we perpetuate errors?; Playing-Cards Made by Johann Ziser, Prague

6. Two Spanish Designs Adapted for French Use; "Troeven": the Simplest Game of Trumps; The Last Days of Indian Playing-Cards?; The History of the Spielkartenfabrik von Georg Martin Neumann; 66-Card Tarock in the Tyrol; Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses (review); The Storage and Display of Playing-Cards

Vol. XXV (1996 - 97)

1. Russian Card Games and Their Literature; Stukeley-Type Playing-Cards in Prague; The Manuscript of Johannes; "Beautiful Bath" pack by Karl Gerich; I Tarocchi Siciliani (review); The Triumphs of Hermes and Wisdom 1; Games of Eleusis, Crowley and Maze

2. Triumphs of Hermes and Wisdom 2; The Playing-Card Factory of C. L. Wüst: a Chronology; Games of Styrivolt, Vorms and Cicera; (more on) Stukeley Cards in the Prague Museum; Tarocke (review); Schach und Karten - und Schachkarten

3. Report on Convention at Kecskemét; The Later Pattern for Sicilian Tarots; Report of first Norwegian Playing-Card Society Meeting; Note sur les "cartes debassette"; Games of Shoot Pontoon and Don; Naqsh in the Nineteenth Century; The "Curse of Scotland"?

4. Documents on Playing-Cards in Piedmont, part 1; Il Castro di Issogne; "Climbing" Games; Two Ten Seven Character Cards in Hsian; Triumphs of Hermes and Wisdom 3

5. Documents on Playing-Cards in Piedmont, part 2; First Reference to Jass; Games of Cotecchio and Trappola; Triumphs of Hermes and Wisdom 4; The Wooden Playing-Cards of the Mongols; The Playing-Cards of Spain (review); Minor British Playing-Card Makers of the Nineteenth Century Volume 1 (review); Playing-Cards in Urbino - a Discovery

6. La Virtú in Giocco 1; Le Livre Belote, Histoire du Bridge, Kartenspiele in Familien - und Freundeskreis, Doppelkopf, Ujabb 21 kártyajátek és még 12 pasziánsz (reviews); (yet more on) Stukeley Cards in the Prague Museum; A Wicked Pack of Cards (review); Minor British Playing-Card Makers of the Nineteenth Century Volume 2 (review); Counties of England (review); Erneute Betrachtungen zu einem erloschenen Standardbilt mit deutsch Farben; The Conception of Ancestors to Tarot Games

Vol. XXVI (1997 - 98)

1. The Game of Three Chrysanthemums; Preference in Russia; Le Portrait d'Aluette Tramezal et Marais; Games: Partners, Allies and Looking for Friends; La Virtú in Giocco 2

2. Orpelli e Naipi; A Greenlandic Descendant of Karnöffel; Game of Trappola; Bhadnagar State Historical Cards; La Virtú in Giocco 3

3. Card Playing and Playing-Cards; Es mus es algo más, Perfectionez seul votre tarot, Kortspelshandboken, Das grosse Buch der Kartenspiele, Schweizer Jass-führer, Forty Fives, Juegos de cartas, Szórakoztató kártyajátékok kézikönyve (reviews); Report on Convention in Trieste and Venice; Bolognese Tarocchino: "Sequenza" Cards; Wüst's Swiss Connections; Some notes on the Bhavnagar Cards; Storing and Displaying Playing-Cards; Albanian Card Ganes: a Recent Tradition

4. Norskeforening for Spillkortsamlere; Beating Off the Attack; The Trumps on the Casa Rella Frescoes; Twenty Years of Cartophilia Helvetica; Die Kartenmacherfamilie Backofen in Nürnberg, The Art of Tarot (reviews); Profile of Han Janssen; News from Altenburg

5. The "Very Costly Game" of Zwicken; Playing the Game: Playing with numbers; The Regensburg pattern; New Issues; IPCS Millennium Project; Pattern Sheet Editor; A Short History of Playing-Cards in the United States; Letter to the Editor (T. Denning); Visit to a new UK Playing-Card Maker

6. Editorial; Millennium Deck; Society News; From the Secretary’s Desk; Miscellany (Blocks used to print card hands, Playing-card electronic mailing list, Frequently Asked Questions); Book Reviews (A Magyar Kártya/Die Ungarishce Karte), Auctions and Lists; Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: Notes on fishing; New Issues; Other Issues; Ein Netzwerk von Bildern; Stýrivoltur, the Karnöffel of the Faroes, part 1; The Game of Faro

Vol. XXVII (1998 - 99)

1. Editorial and result of Modiano Prize 1998; Talon/BDK Meeting 1998; Ravensburger Games takes over Berliner Spielkarten; Notes and Queries (Playing cards to keep fit, Internet news, Names of English court card patterns, Happy Families, Early British playing-cards); Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (London Livery Company Apprenticeship Registers, Volume 12: Makers of Playing Cards’ company 1675 - 1760, Saddlers’ Company 1657 - 1666, Tobacco Pipemakers’ Company 1800, Tarrokk Album, Games We Play. History of J.W. Spear & Sons, Minor British Playing Card Makers of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 4. James English & Compnay; Peerless Card Company); Playing the Game: Black kings in Greenland and Black Maria in Finland; New Issues; An Unusual Hindu pack of cards; ; Stýrivoltur, the Karnöffel of the Faroes, part 2

2. George Beal: an Appreciation; Letter to the Editor (R. Lancaster); Notes and Queries (Internet News, New Cards for Old, Casino Telephone Card, Name of the Game in Chinese, Frequently Asked Questions); Book Reviews ("Welli & Co" Spielkarten aus Alt-Tirol 1750 - 1900. Sonderheft zu Talon No. 7, Tarot Cards and the Millennium - the Story of Who’s on the Cards and Why); Playing the Game: Cards in Russian prisons; New Issues; A pack not made by Hunt; In Search of Tarot Sources: part 1; A visit to Sawantwadi

3. Editorial; Rendez-vous at Issy, 23 - 25 October; Klaus Reisinger’s response to receiving the Modiano Prize 1998; Notes and Queries (Internet news, Plea for information, Second-hand Cards, Exhibition of "Seducing Cards" at Turnhout); Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (Kártyafestõk Magyarországon / Kartenmaler in Ungarn / Card Makers in Ungarn, Igorny Dom [The Gambling House], New Playing Card Figures by Academic Sharleman, I Giochi di Carta / Card Games, Playing cards & Card Games on British Cigarette Cards - a Checklist and Anglo-American Playing Cards on Overseas Cigarette Cards - a Checklist (provisional)); Playing the Game: Recent books; Playing-Card Ephemera; New Issues; Bubble Cards and Prints; In Search of Tarot Sources: part 2

4. Address from our President; Notes and Queries (Staff to leaf transformation in English cards, The American Game Collectors’ Association, Royal Geographical Whist, Further notes on the playing-cards of Sawantwadi, Internet news, Casino playing-cards, Michael Dummett, Vanity Fair); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: Zwickern; New Issues; William Montagu’s Geographical Pack of 1793; Huchot and other card game illustrators; Perilous times of 19th century playing-card makers in London; La prima edizione di Chitarrella

5. Editorial; IPCS convention 24 - 26 September Wroclaw; The index on-line; Notes and Queries (Standcraft Janus pack, Black Cat cigarette playing-cards, Thackeray’s connections with cards, Rudolf von Leyden, Ganjifa exhibition, Leicester, De La Rue’s early Ace of spades, Miniature cards, Quartet CD-ROM, Society news, Dates in 18th century England and "Bubble Cards"); Book Reviews (British Patents, Design of and Games with Playing-Cards); Playing the Game: Quitlok; Number symbolism and the tarot trumps; Playing cards in Bermuda; New Issues; Los Impuestos Sobre los Naipes en los Reinos de España, entraga 1; The ‘Nine Worthies’ and French cards

6. Editorial; Notes and Queries (German area representative, Belgian mystery pack, AG Müller now owned by Carta Mundi, Turnhout museum closes for refurbishment, Questions for the 3rd millennium, part 1, "Cries and Humours of London" completed, ...and now wash your hands, Internet news, Exhibition at Albemarle Gallery, London); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: king-ten-five or ace-ten-five; New Issues; SK329858; "MADE FROM PW" - ein handgemachtes Internationales Bild; Los Impuestos Sobre los Naipes en los Reinos de España, entraga 2; Stubai Valley Droggn and Dobbm - two living fossils of the Austrian card game landscape, part I

Vol. XXVIII (1999 - 2000)

1. Editorial; BDK/Talon meeting in Goslar; Letters to the Editor (W. Suma, J. Taylor, T. Denning); Notes and Queries (Belgian mystery pack, Early editions of Waite/Colman Smith’s tarot deck, Accolade for Issy-les-Moulineaux museum, Tarot exhibition at Turnhout, L’ACCART strikes back, More on second-hand cards, Questions for the 3rd millennium, part 2, Internet news); Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (Cartiers Parisiens du XIXe Siècle, The catalogue of Happy Family Games. Promotional Packs); Playing the Game: Swiss games and more relatives of Rook; New Issues; SK329858 (reprinted with corrections); Nouvelle Étymologie du terme tarock/tarot; The return of Bridge to its homeland; Stubai Valley Droggn and Dobbm - two living fossils of the Austrian card game landscape, part II; Phillip Otto Runge’s first playing-cards

2. Editorial; Modiano Prize winner 1999; IPCS British Group meeting in Leicester; Notes and Queries (Political allegiances and Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Cards, French-suited 60-card decks, Cheating in South African casinos, Questions for the 3rd millennium, part 3, Tarot studies, 18th century advertisement for playing-cards, Bicycle playing-cards in Canada, Playing-card manufacture in Germany in the 1880s, Internet news); Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (Spielkarten, volumes 6 - 9, Michaela Klinkow:Spielkartenmakulatur, Schweizer Spielkarten 1. Die Anfänge im 15. Und 16. Jahrhundert); New Issues; Playing the Game:more 66-card tarot games; The manufacturing process of French-suited playing-caards befoe 1800; Taking the ‘waters of Ambert’ too literally a very early advertising deck; French suits and English names; A new card design from China; Stubai Valley Droggn and Dobbm - two living fossils of the Austrian card game landscape, part III

3. Editorial; Trevor Denning - Honorary Fellow; Fournier’s giant pack at Guildhall Library; 1999 IPCS Convention, Wroclaw, Poland; Letter to the Editor (T. Denning); Notes and Queries (Deck or Pack?, Woodpecker Press, Death of L.M.C. Fradera, Exhibition at Guildhall Library, London, La recoupe - new cards for old?, Belgian mystery pack - still a mystery, Cartorama catalogue XXV, ACCART meeting November, Wroclaw convention, Internet news); Book Reviews (Museo "Fournier" de Naipes de Alava Catalogo Tomo IV, Spielkarten aus der Sammlung Schultz, TAROCKE: Kulturgeschichte auf Kartenbildern. Band 6); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: Recent books; De La Rue’s first playing-cards; New Issues; I Trionfi di Marziano; La première mention de la Scopa; Golden Patience - A new pack of cards from Moehsnang

4. Editorial; Victor Ferro Torrelles on the award of the 1999 Modiano Prize; The early history of the IPCS; Letters to the Editor (P. Wood, R. Lancaster); Notes and Queries (Talon/BDK meeting Vienna, Links to IPCS members’ home pages, De La Rue’s first playing-cards - the ugly queens, First European museum website, Benetton Foundation awards for games research, Mystery pack); New Issues; Musical composition with playing-cards; Book Review (Spielkarten aus Goslar); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: exploring the boundaries; Bony, une fabrique de cartes à jouer et papiers peints à Lunéville (1836 - 1941); The ‘Maacher Kulturhuef’; Facsimile of a prisoner’s hand-made cards from the Grini concentration camp, Norway

5. Editorial; IPCS Millennium pack; Letters to the Editor (M. Dummett, J. McLeod); Les amis du Kulturhuef; Notes and Queries (Call for papers for 2000 convention, Advantages of card playing, Mystery deck fully revealed, Connaissez-vous ce jeu du ‘Happy Families’?, Holding hands - the fanning of a hand of cards, Ray Hartz - an obituary, Corrections to early history of the IPCS, Internet news); New Issues; Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (The catalogue of Happy Family Games, Part One and Part Two); Playing-cards and Medley prints; Extra Zwanglose Karte; The 2000 Convention - further information; Playing the Game: Swazi Casino; Two Portugal Insurrection packs

6. Preliminary Convention 2000 schedule; Notes and Queries (Carta Mundi’s millennium mystery, Hands up! Fanning of a hand of cards, French promotional Happy Families pack, Isle of Man Souvenir Cards, Dealt a precious hand, Internet news); New Issues; Playing the Game: Jass games - a survey; A 19th century Kurnol Dashavatara ganjifa pack; Publications Roundup; Rock Brothers and Payne - a Victorian stationer and playing-card maker; Playing-cards from Goslar; Grevjass, a modern Faroese pointer to the Jass of Czar Peter I;

Vol. XXIX (2000 - 2001)

1. Editorial; Notes & Queries (Sale of second-hand playing-cards, De La Rue’s gold standard, Exhibition at Technisches Museum Wien, corrections to volume XXVIII, Internet news, Astrophilogeon); BDK/Talon meeting 2000; New Issues; Book Review (Eroticism on Playing Cards); Publications Roundup; Playing the Game: the survival of Hombre; Klabberjaß im Alten Land bei Hamburg; L’Inquisition, le Monopole et les Cartiers en Espagne au XVI^e Siècle; Cracow playing-card manufacturers in modern Times; A Phoenix Arises

2. Editorial; Notes & Queries (Cotton in playing cards, Grazer tarock, Mystery deck: an Austrian pack for India, Japanese Oroha cards, Grini prisoners’ hand-made cards, Wolfgang Suma obituary); Book Reviews (Pepys: the story of the company and its games, 3rd edition, Ariel & Waddy, Some Card Games. Old Maid, Illustrated book of the Mahjong Museum); Publications Roundup; The competitions for the back design of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards presentation packs; An introduction to playing-cards from the Czech lands; Dates of packs on Lenthall’s List; New Issues; Playing the Game: the other Napoleon

3. Report on Joint IPCS/52 Plus Joker Convention; Notes & Queries (2000 Modiano Prize awarded to John McLeod, Mahjong: the name of the game, Internet news, death of Harold Wayland, Postscript to New Haven convention); Publications Roundup; Book Review (Von Lyon nach Wien); Playing the Game: Recent books; New Issues; Playing-cards of Malta; The Printing of Playing-Cards; The late Ming game of Ma Diao

4. Chairman's Review of the Year; John McLeod on receiving the Modiano prize; Notes & Queries (Card sharps on the railway, Millennium pack from the WCMPC, More of Carta Mundi's millennium mysteries, the Modiano Prize judges, Obituary: Robert Sherlaw-Johnson, Virginia Wayland, New issues and book reviews, Corrections, Anonymous joker, a cartomantic perspective); Playing the Game: Tarokk in Hungary; a 19th Century Glossary of Playing-Card Terms; Rocks in the Landscape (cards of Jean Vérame); a Response to the *tuman Problem; Wolfgang Suma: a Personal Reminiscence; Publications Roundup; New Issues; Book Reviews (The Hochman Encyclopedia of American Playing cards, The Game of Leaves)

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1. Notes and Queries: [Elizabethan card games, Naipes Gacela; A two-handled cup painted with playing cards, Latvian playing card artwork, Corrections to "Kakkuri: The Last Yomi Game of Japan"]; The Talon/BDK Meeting 2005;Publications Roundup; Book Reviews (Collectible Playing Cards, Playing Cards - the Collection of Alexander Perelman, New Accessions: 2000-02, Eroticism on Playing Cards. Vol. VI, ASS nach 19450; An Early 20th Century Pack of French Suited Cards by Narayan Ramachandra Kelkar; New Issues; Early Cardmakers in Scotland; The Early Waite-Smith Tarot Editions; A Severe Penalty for Forgery of the Ace of Spades; A Survey of Russian Playing-Card Publications; Carte da gioco del ‘700 nella Cappella Sistina; The 1890 Worshipful Company Pack for the Summer Ladies Dinner; Non-Standard De La Rue Packs for King Christian X of Denmark; De La Rue & Co. London and Paris Decks; Playing the Game: Kaiser, Joffre and the Lost Heir; Tarot Reviews; New Issues

2. Letter: WCMPC Ladies pack 1887; Notes and Queries: [Presser’s court of music pack; A new pack from Latvia; John Card, Master of the WCMPC, British Group meetings]; IPCS Turnhout Convention report; Book Reviews [il Tarocchino di Bologna: Storia, Iconografia, Divinazione dal XV al XX secolo; The Encyclopedia of Tarot Vol IV; Kleine kaartjes, grote verhalen (Small cards, great stories); Seltene Kartenspiele aus drei Privatsammlungen; Playing-cards from Wüst (1811 - 1927); Dick’s Games of Patience]; The ASESCOIN 2005 meeting; Publications Roundup Playing Cards and Tarots in Naples, 15th-18th Centuries; A Czech National Revival Pack c. 1890 engraved by Karel Hoffman; Gambling in Malta under the Order of St. John; A Pack by Grimaud for the Liner France; Playing the Game: Canasta Relatives - Games with Feet; New Issues; Tarot Reviews

3. In Memoriam Klaus Reisinger 1941 - 2006; Notes & Queries: [IPCS Convention, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 21-24 September 2006, A Latvian casino pack; 2005 W.C.M.P.C. Presentation Pack]; Book Reviews [Playing Cards, Schloss- und Spielkartenmuseum Altenburg, Exhibition: Tarots of Yesterday and Today, The Waddington Playing Card Collection Part 1, Saigo no Yomi-karuta (The last Yomi-karuta), History and Culture of Mahjong (Mahjong Museum)]; New Issues; The 14th Century and the Introduction of Playing Cards into Europe; Owen Jones (1809 - 1874): Architect, Decorative Artist & Designer of Playing Cards; A Discovery of 16th Century Playing-Cards; Tarot Reviews; Early Documents on Playing Cards in Mantua; William Taunton and the Game of Zetema; Playing the Game: Truc, Vitou and Aluette; A Pack made by a Napoleonic Prisoner-of-War; Publications Roundup

4. Notes & Queries [WCMPC Ladies Dinner menu; UK Area Representative; British Group Meeting; Lorna Collet; Australian cards; Corrections to XXXIV #3]; Letters: 14th Century - Michael Dummett, Napoleonic prisoner of war cards - Jean Vérame; Obituary: Lorna Collett; New Issues; Tarot Reviews; Book Reviews [The Art of Contest; English Playing Cards Associated with British Royalty; Igorniy Dom (Playing Card House)];A Czech Hussite Pack; C. L. Wüst and the Theilungs-Recess; Die "quarten" aus dem Hennegau; Hallazgos de barajas antiguas españolas; John Kirk - An 18th Century Card Maker; Mahjong(g), before and after Mahjong(g); When We Were Very Young; Playing the Game: Literature and Joffre cards

Playing-Card World

See also the consolidated alphabetical index of articles

Issues 1 - 80

35. Collecting comments; Military tarock no.36; 'Unique style' cards - XP6

36. Political /Propaganda packs; Mardon Son & Hall; Skat politisch; Korean packs

37. Facsimiles/Reproduction packs; Milan exhibition & catalogue

38. Scenic Aces (I); Modern Indian cards (I); Mardon Son & Hall

39. Aces (II); Indian cards (II); Strange packs (I); Austrian Tax-stamps; Ghezzi

40. Hamburg cards; Houlston tarot; King of Clubs; Postage stamps; Strange packs (II)

41. Strange Packs (III); Karuta; Piatnik; Cards on Stamps; Reprints/Replicas

42. Ancestry of English pattern (I); Cards on Stamps; Convention organisation

43. English pattern courts; Cards for pictures; Fortune-telling packs

44. Ancestry (II); Cards on stamps; An Antwerp De la Rue; Hana Funa imports

45. Typography on backs; Edelbacher; Inn-signs; Henault/Haynault Antwerp? 1543?

46. Norwood 85; Transformations; Cards on walls; Berliner Spielkarten; A Queer Pack

47. Signboards of playing-card makers; Unusual Indian pack; Spanish pattern (I)

48. Inn signs; Spanish patterns (II); Classification problems; Gurney Benham

49. Czech mining cards; Transformation cards; The Tarot "World"

50. Poverinos; Storage; Mah Jongg in Deutschland; Minchiate tricks; "Worshipfuls"

51. Whiting facsimiles; 17th century booklets; Worshipful Co.; Storage

52. J.E.Hodgkin; Rothschild cards; Titles of Lenthall packs and others

53. Seasons pattern origins; The other side; Trente et Quarante; XP6

54. All the Bubbles; Tarock Regeln; Transformation cards - review; Seasons forebears

55. Karl Gerich; V&A Catalogue; Off-beat interests; Kille, Gnav, Cuccu

56. Boring Cards; French encyclopaedias; Chinese puzzles; Different interests

57. Czech exhibition; Paris pattern by J.P.Seguin (review)

58. Altenburg Cards & The New Tarot (revision)

59. Czech cards; Tiertarock (review); French Revolution Exhibition; San Marino visited

60. Saarberg packs; The Leinfelden museum; Altenburg Jokers; Sur la piste de Lancelot

61. Turnhout meeting; Skatvergnügen, Stamp Atlas, Tarot Art, Verame - Book reviews; 17th & 18th century addresses

62. Cologne makers and cards; Eroticism on cards and Tarot Encyclopaedia III - reviews; Ukiyo-e Packs; Card backs; Modern Indian cards

63. Finnish Saga; Berliner Question; Black Peter?; Italian patterns; Indian leather cards; Gertrud Kümpel-Amsler's tarot

64. Hungarian meeting; The English Pattern & "Les Guymier" - reviews; New Chinese Domino cards; Hamburger mystery; Mercante in Fiera

65. Floskaartjes - Not Black Peter; Die Spielkartenfabrik B Dorndorf &Worshipful Company - reviews; Elaine Lewis; Altenburg Collection Burnt?; Chinese Pictorials

66. "The Fracas"; Altenburger Sammlung Verbrannt?; Stuttgarter Kartenspiel, Yale Gazette, Spielkarten in Ungarn, La Baraja Politica Moderna - reviews

67. Munich Convention; Portuguese or German?; Spielkarten aus Asien; Finnish Saga; Portrait de Paris avant 1701, Norske Kortleikar - reviews; Czech collecting

68. Finnish War Games; Portuguese or German?; "Schnatter"; Patience; soc.culture.spain

69. New Playing-Card Museum in Japan; "Hamburgische" Spielkarten; Desert Island Decks (Stuart Lawrence); A Vitoria Barajas, Die Spielkartenfabrik Piatnik in Budapest und ihre Nachfolger (reviews)

70. Yesterday's Information on Today's Media; The Belgian/Genoese pattern; "Noord Brabant" pack; Politiek op de Kaarttafel , Josef Maria Melchior Annen (1868 - 1954) , Cartes à Jouer Parisiennes du XVIe Siècle, Eroticism on Playing-Cards, Volume II (reviews)

71. Standard patterns; A Dutch Treat; Jagannath and Gunjappa makers; "Winning Hand" competition; Desert Island Decks (Franco Pratesi); Belasting is Troef (review)

72. Traditionality and Indian Ganjifa; Dutch Re-Treat; British Playing Card Manufacture in the 19th Century , De Spielkaarten collectie van het Belastingmuseum (reviews)

73. Desert Island Decks (Trevor Denning); Who are we?; Playing-cards in Wels - and Linz; Catalogue 2 of Trevor Denning's Collection of Spanish Playing-Cards (review)

74. Karl Gerich's Masterpiece; Hooked on Hodges; The games of Brus & La Mattaccia; Animal Crackers; A Collector's Guide to Playing Cards in Denmark , Die Spielkartenstadt/Skatstadt Altenburg, Goodall & Son's Playing Cards (reviews)

75. A Danish Discovery; Standards and Non-Standards; Another Maker from "Down Under"; A Bavarian Tragedy; A Rare British Cardmaker; Chinese Pictorials (again!); Das Bayerische Bild , Naipes Bitánicos (reviews)

76. To play or not to play; Evolving Scandinavian design; Portuguese, Italian & Spanish suit signs; Gene Hochman (obituary); Testimoni historic de naipes Comas (review)

77. Reports on Rome, Cartophilia Helvetica and Talon meetings; Mecklenburger Geschichte auf Spielkarten (review); "Cartorama" formed

78. Reports on Vitoria Convention and Bube, Dame, König meeting; Spielkarten: Jugendstil und Art Deco (review); Circuses and Teddy Bears transformation packs

79. Fournier Museum d'Alava; 1993 & 1994 Worshipful packs; Cards found in Assisi; Kaartenmakers in Wallonië (review)

80. Dr. Ernst Ragg, Fred G. Taylor & Jaroslav Šafǎrík (obituaries); Archival storage

Pattern Sheets

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No printed back issues of pattern sheets are available.