I grew up with four corner indices present on all playing cards, I'm right handed, and I only use the top-right index during gameplay. Having indices only in the left corner is the same as having no indices for me. So I'd rather play with 4-index cards for practicality (or no index cards, which are ...

Nice ... well done on finding them all!

Thanks a lot all of you, really appreciate your support!

Great! Yes I don't think the hunting decks are very easy to find now ...

So I am planning to launch my new Kickstarter on Monday. Here's the link to the Kickstarter prelaunch page where you can sign up to be notified when the launch happens. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/737088756/rare-triumphs-tarot-and-pike-and-clover-v2-playing-cards There will be two sets of c...

Bumping for anyone who missed seeing this.

Is this a Lenormand deck? Yes it looks like it is a Lenormand deck. For one or two of the cards the symbolism is perhaps less obvious, but if you go through all the cards the great majority of them very clearly correspond to the Lenormand meanings. I suppose for a project like this where all the ar...

Yep, hope this makes it easier for some Cartamundi fans to take the leap and come on board, welcome!

Thanks for sharing this here ...

.... constructive, practical improvement suggestions .... One thing I would definitely do is change the pip cards so that they are two-way. (all the pips on your pip cards are facing the same way at the moment. look at any standard pack of cards to see how they are typically done. I mean sometimes ...

Hopefully I'm not stating the obvious about the artwork here, but from the picture posted above, at least the KoH is a modification of the standard Paris pattern KoH:

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Kille in this context doesn't mean the same thing as the usual Swedish word kille (boy). It is usually actually pronounced differently --- kille the cards have a soft k (as expected from the spelling), whereas kille for boy has a hard k like karl (also boy). It may be derived from the word Harlekin ...

If anyone missed the kickstarter and is interested in getting hold of a set of these cards ... they are now available on my site to order:

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I discovered that someone was making the standard Swiss Jass cards in a classic full figure version. So I ordered some, and I can show you some pictures. Very nice, and unusual to be able to find a new edition of such full figure cards. These cards were drawn by Jens Riedweg in Switzerland, and this...

Sylvia Mann's All the Cards on the Table is a great history of the standard patterns, I don't own this book, and it's out of print. One book with lots of pictures of very old cards that you might like is called The World in Play, it was produced as a kind of catalogue of an exhibition at the met mus...

Neil (the artist) sadly died last year.

brownsl wrote:... but wish I could find his Viceroys and Inglewood Hunting decks for sale.

Thanks! Yes, I fear these decks may already be hard to find.

Thanks to all those UC residents who helped this to get funded!

Many thanks for the kind comments all of you! And thanks for backing, it's very much appreciated.

RE: the border shapes, mainly I wanted the king, queen, jack to all have different border layouts, and both rectangular and arch-topped border shapes are pretty typical in those gospel books.

badpete69 wrote:Shimmering.. Added pics to your post.. You are all set Good luck

Many thanks!

My new project ... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/737088756/liber-ludorum-playing-cards https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/025/289/709/4bdb422aa282fc097f2a4a602960112d_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-2.0.0&w=680&fit=max&v=1559049251&auto=format&gif-q=50&q=92&s=1bd06968849458267...

Also I note that both of those Icelandic decks just linked are listed on that site as "reprints".

Maybe someone who speaks Icelandic better than me will correct me, but "Askja Med Tvennum Spillum" seems to me to mean "box with two decks" ... so maybe you get two decks. Or maybe not.

Thanks Decknowledgy for reporting back on this. Honestly when I read the artist's comments about international shipping last week I really didn't hold out any hope of him changing his mind, and had no intention of checking back on the project myself. However, now I am in. And yes I imagine I will us...

Wow, I had seen pictures of the original printing of this deck. Didn't think it would be reprinted. But US shipping only, what a downer.

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Do you know of other Mamluk recreations? I have the Cartamundi one and the Viceroys that were inspired by Mamluk playing cards but my quest ended there. As far as I know, the three you mention: - The Cartamundi 1970s deck (Muluk wa-nuwwab), facsimilie edition of the Mamluk cards with recreations of...

Hi Immy, of the ones you show there, I like the ones with the two insects facing each other the best (called test 1). After that your current (oneway) designs.

It looks like a traditional type of design, but am I right in thinking you have come up with this yourself? I think well done for creating a classic vibe. I remember you posted something here before (I guess it was you) along similar lines, but with ordinary shaped cards, and maybe less of a unified...

One thing I am curious about is the spelling of Parlour. I mean I spell it like that all the time so it didn't strike me until now, but I was under the impression that that's not the US preferred spelling. Are you using it to evoke an old-fashioned vibe?