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And to finish today a few more picture backs and advertising decks from waddingtons :D
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A full 52 card deck by De La Rue c.1855-1862. This Exportation Ace was used at the same time as the Old Frizzle Ace from 1828 to 1862. There was no Tax Duty on cards intended for overseas as opposed to the One Shilling Duty for card intended for domestic sales.
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Double Advertising deck manufactured in Sweden by J Oberg & Son, dated 1963.
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A couple of modernish decks, "Torchwood" by Carta Mundi and "Rasta" by Fournier
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And a double JPS advertising set by Waddingtons to finish.
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Two "Societe Generale" Boxsets from Waddingtons and dated 1971.
Standard version on the left and special presentation set on the right.
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All the decks are gilded and cello sealed with the Amalgamated gold seal, the faces are the Siriol clarry "Four Seasons" design printed by waddingtons in 1963. (you can see these on page 1 of the England thread of worldwide)
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Four more Calendar packs to add to the collection.
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And a Waddingtons No.1 silver plated card case made by Links of London for Winning Moves.
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Der Diener Zweier Herren. Unknown date.
The Leifelden Museum of Germany`s facsimile of the 52 card pack originally published in France in 1720 showing characters from the Comedia del Arte.
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An Art deck titled The Winning Hand c.1980`s
This deck is made up of designs submitted by students of over 250 art schools who entered the winning hands competition sponsored by the Victoria & Albert Museum and Virgin Atlantic Airways.
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The Cutler Trust charity pack dated 2004 printed by Richard Edward cards, the cutler trust was set up by the Worshipful company of makers of playing cards and this limited edition of 2,000 packs was released to help boost funds for the charity.
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And a couple of advertising decks by waddingtons to finish today.
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A double Bezique set from Reynolds & Sons dated 1862-1880. Both sets of cards have the same back design.
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Jeu Henri IV, printed by J.C Dusserre of France date unknown. The deck reproduces a pack of cards attributed to Vincent Goyrand who was a cardmaker in France around 1600. I bought 3 large matchbox labels with these courts a while ago and have been looking for a deck since. glad to have stumbled upon these.
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An advertising deck for the British India Steam Navigation Company printed by Alf Cooke with a specially designed Ace of Spades.
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And a couple of Advertising decks for B+I Line by two different printers. On the left printed by Coeur of Germany and on the right printed by Waddingtons.
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The Curator deck brings back memories. Its one of my favourite deck during that time. So simple yet beautiful deck to have.
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A full set of 52 cards from De La Rue c.1855-1862. Old frizzle ace and D4.1 Courts.
De La Rue introduced double-ended courts in 1850 (D4) Additional decorations to the clothing were added to these plates in 1855 (D4.1)as well as some colour variations e.g all jacks have yellow hair.these plates lasted until 1865 until a complete redraw was undertaken (D5)
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Circular cards manufactured by Fournier of Spain.
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A gilded Marden,Son & Hall deck from 1933.
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And last today is a double advertising deck for the Blue Funnel Line made by Waddingtons.
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Very cool ace in that Cutler deck Jase!
Mad capering figures everywhere, and touches of colour. Nice find.

And the antique decks....and the round Fournier :drool: ... it's always a pleasure viewing your thread .

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Forgot to mention that your Comedia del Art set looks like prints made from the engraved plates. You can see an indent in the paper around each image. I also love the courts in the Jeu Henri IV. Great find.
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Kaiserkarte printed by ASS from 1975 onwards. The cards were originally designed for the German Imperial family in 1920.
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Standard Deck of 52 cards from L. Biermans of Belgium. No Wrapper or Tuck and the Joker dates the deck around 1930-1940`s.
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Grand Prix deck of 1973, designed by Genevieve Lirola and printed by Grimaud. Repeating courts but a different colour scheme for each suit.
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And a double Waddingtons deck to finish.
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A double set by Grimaud titled Stained Glass Window, dated 1985. The cards are the same as the "Vitraux moyen age" deck by grimaud and i have posted scans a while back in the french section of worldwide.
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Hackett of London advertising deck. Repeating custom court cards.
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A couple of Lager advertising decks from Carta Mundi.
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And a couple of Waddingtons advertising decks to finish today.
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Roald Dahl produced by Petit la Borde (printed in China) in 2008, Illustrations by Quentin Blake.
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A Salzberg Pattern deck produced by Piatnik. The Italian tax stamp dates the deck to the 1940`s.
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A reproduction of a James English deck from 1882. Printed by Mt Hood Playing Cards in the U.S.A in 2003.
Unfortunately they failed to reproduce the James English Ace of Spades for some reason, but other than that a very nice reproduction.
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And finally today a couple of Waddingtons advertising decks.
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A couple of kickstarters arrived during the week, the first is Home Run Games reproduction of Samuel Harts Saladee`s Patent playing cards.
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The 1965 worshipful company installation pack, commemorating the signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
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A couple of sealed Lo Scarabeo decks.
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And a couple of Waddingtons advertising decks to finish.
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The second kickstarter is Bone & Ebon which was designed and illustrated by Noah Whippie, produced and printed by Noir Arts (NPCC).
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A pack of italian cards from Dal Negro featuring the Sarde Pattern.
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A British Legion double pack printed by Alf Cooke, the Red back is still tax sealed.
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And to finish today a double deck from Waddingtons.
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Jeu des Fables ou de Metamorphose, Limited edition of 600 decks printed by Edizioni del solleone in 1986.
This facsimile is the first of four educational decks produced in 1644 by Jean Desmarests and illustrated by Stefano Della Bella, that was intended to help educated the young King Louis XIV of France.
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The Oscar Wilde Playing Cards produced by Pressage International and distributed by David Westnedge in 1986.
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Historic Playing Cards. these "made to look old" cards was designed by TSD:UK in 2016.
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And a pack of Waddingtons Silkette Playing cards printed in Dublin,Ireland by Ormond.
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I`ve been eagerly waiting for this very cool kickstarter to arrive. Cryptic Cards designed by Immy Smith and Printed by Carta Mundi. :drool: i originally backed for a 66 card deck ,but with the change of printer (due to the original printer trying to pass inferior tuck boxes onto Immy :evil: ) that didn`t do 66 card decks, i choose to get a book (which has pictures of the extra cards from the 66 card deck) and an extra deck instead.
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Two full decks of 52 cards by the Bancks Brothers c.1849-1862, Old Frizzle Ace , single figure courts (HB 1) and Plain backs.
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The Pitufos , Printed by Fournier in 2013.
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And last picture today is a double Waddingtons.
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Thanks for sharing a picture of my cards, so glad you're enjoying them :D :D
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CrypticCards wrote:Thanks for sharing a picture of my cards, so glad you're enjoying them :D :D
Hiya Immy, Your cards are a delight and it`s my pleasure showing them off. 8-)
Here`s some more cards,
Jeu des Fortifications , printed in 1982 by Edizione del solleone. This is a facsimilie of a deck designed by Gilles de la Boissiere of Paris in 1668.
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A dutch deck printed by Speelkaarten Fabriek Nederland advertising the Nederland line. The Pattern is called "Niew Neerlandia A Pattern" and was designed by M.A. Koekkoek in 1931, this deck has both Dutch and english indices.
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A Compaq advertising deck printed by Games and Print Services of the U.K.
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And a double deck from Waddingtons to finish today.
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Thanks for these jase ....
The paradox of Marvelous Moths and Gunpowder Architecture ....
Ahh, playing cards !
O, I beg of you your comprehensions,
yet laugh at your contempts ....
my only competition is with myselves.

But Lèse-majesté, especially >Normans, natch.

Is jarnstill the Ars of the Hors Nebulous ?
Neigh .... the Effluxor of the Omniverse ??
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Standard English Pattern with single-figure courts manufactured for L.N Mann by Van Genechten of Turnhout in 1890. L.N. Mann is recorded as a trading name for Mesmaekers also of Turnhout, who may have been the actual exporter of the cards.
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A couple of modern reprints of the Bicycle Chainless backs from 2016.
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A 32 postcard set of the Unsavory Characters deck designed by Aleksey Orleansky from 2003. Featuring original artwork for all the court cards on the fronts and notes in russian on the backs.
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And a double advertisng set from Waddingtons to finish today.
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Snap, them British Ropes ....
Almost a lost legacy, ropemaking.
Almost ....
O, I beg of you your comprehensions,
yet laugh at your contempts ....
my only competition is with myselves.

But Lèse-majesté, especially >Normans, natch.

Is jarnstill the Ars of the Hors Nebulous ?
Neigh .... the Effluxor of the Omniverse ??
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I must agree with Bruno, those British Rope decks are DOPE! I also like the postcard set, a nice substitute for the deck itself.

Someday what I would really like to see is where you keep all your cards, do you have a small warehouse? :lol:

As always, thanks for sharing your wonderful and diverse collection as it is always a pleasure seeing your posts! :ugdance:
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Thanks Bruno & Sherman :D Two people actually like my Waddingtons :ugdance: :ugking:
shermjack wrote: I also like the postcard set, a nice substitute for the deck itself.
I have the deck ,i posted scans in the Russia section of worldwide, so its more of a companion than a substitute.

I got two kickstarters in this week. First is Wicked Kingdom by Wylie Beckert.
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Victorian Playing Cards ,produced in 1897 by Goodalls.
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A Russian deck designed by Irina Bordei and printed by Saratov in 2009.
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And a gilded Waddingtons deck to finish.
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The second kickstarter is Little Atlantis, designed by Yellow Dice and produced by Gamblers Warehouse.
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Cartes des Rois de France, Printed by Edizione del Solleone in 1986. The second of four decks produced in 1644 by Jean Desmarests that was intended to educate the young King Louis XIV.
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Jeu Portrait Francais en Pied, printed by Grimaud in 1983.In 1810 Napoleon decided that a new national pattern was needed to replace the out-dated revolution packs, After a few unpopular attempts at designing a new pattern by various artists,a redrawing of the original Paris Pattern became the National pattern once again.
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And a couple of advertising decks from Waddingtons to finish today.
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Not posted recently due to getting new position at work with a different shift pattern and longer hours, just needed a few weeks for my body to work normally again :lol: :lol:
Here`s Greille from JP playing cards, i got the set the day after they went on sale :drool: :drool: another great addition to the LUXX series.
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Chinesen Tarok produced by Piatnik No.2884, A reprint of a deck by Joseph Estel from 1820.
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The 1972 annual installation pack from the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards.
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And a double Waddingtons to Finish.
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This may upset many of you but I`m going to break my tradition of having a Waddingtons to finish, over the next 9 posts, :ugdance: :ugking:
but don`t worry they will be back :lol:

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Evgeny Grigorenko has been producing a series of reprints of Russian Playing Cards since 2011. Here is the first 33 deck from the series 1798 to 1943,Unsure of the exact number of decks in the series, the hardback book has 48 decks listed up to the date 2001 and i have seen a few other packs from the series which have not been listed.
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On the 24th of March, 1798, by the Emperor`s decree the right to manufacture and sell within the borders of the Russian Empire was forever granted to the Foundling Hospital - a charity establishment offering custody for orphans. The Board of Guardians of the Foundling Hospital decided to give the exclusive right to manufacture playing cards, in exchange for money to "support orphans". The farming system existed for more than 20 years, namely from the 1st of April, 1799 til the 1st of January, 1820, during that time five tax-farming contracts were registered ,each lasting four years.
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Playing cards were manufactured not only by big factories in both capitals, Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also in remote towns by small makers, who had to buy manufacture warrants from tax-farmers. All cards manufactured by tax-farmers were classified into three classes. The class of cards was defined both by the quailty of the process of manufacture of cards themselves and the technology of printing. The first class contained only the best cards, The second class included both defective cards of the first class and cards of lower quailty compared with the first class cards. The third class, being the worst ones, consisted of `worn out` cards and cards made from russian paper only.
1. RUSSIAN PLAYING CARDS, 1798
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This pack manufactured at the beginning of the tax farming period seems to be rather crude,archaic and almost primitive compared with the European cards that served as original samples. Wood block printing and stencil was used to manufacture cards and no matter where or by whom they were made,it inevitably led to some variability of the card images. The blocks used for printing soon became worn out through very intense usage, this often resulted in the court cards looking rather fuzzy, they often lacked fingers and noses and one could only guess the shapes of some parts of the clothing as their outlines were fragmented
2. RUSSIAN PLAYING CARDS, 1815
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The Russian courts are somewhat modified versions of those found on cards typical of the northern regions of Germany,which in turn,go back to the traditional French pack. The affinity is evident when we look at postures of the court figures, head`s inclination and eye direction, flowers in Queen`s hand, the orbs, the sword and the sceptre held by Kings,poleaxes held by Jacks. The paints used for colouring of russian cards - Red, Yellow and Blue- are similar to ones used for colouring of cards of German manufacture and have their own symbols. Thus,yellow symbolizes fire, heat, south and wealth, Blue symbolizes wisdom, serenity and selflessness, Red is bravery and courage.
3. RUSSIAN PLAYING CARDS, 1850
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During the first half of the 19th century playing cards of the second class were manufactured in accordance with their traditional design, being much worse in stylistic features in comparison with cards from Europe. Russian engravers, being influenced by conventional standards, still managed to improve the design of face cards of this pack a little, Looking at the pack of second class from 1850, it is quite clear that the design is more refined, the faces aquire human features, and the colouring also improves becoming more precise and bright.

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After a special regulation issued in 1819 we see the closing down of private card factories and the end to the farming system altogether. The imperial card factory of the Alexander manufactory became the sole manufacturer of playing cards in Russian.
4. RUSSIAN TAROK, 1820
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The pack called Russian Tarok or Animal Tarok is a purely Russian product with a Western accent, which manifests itself primarily in the expicit similarity to Burgundian packs of cards of the 17th century. In addition, the European roots are traced unambiguously in the resemblence between head-dresses of the Russian Kings and the Paris- sister pack manufactured in 1808. However, the fact that the cards are still purely Russian is evident from the illustrations of merry peasants with little bears, rabbits gnawing the Russian Aspen, wild boars and grey wolves staring glumly at us from the cards of the Major Arcana. Manufacture of Tarok cards continued until 1855, now complete sets of these packs are very rare.
5. THE GEOGRAPHICAL CARDS OF RUSSIA, 1830
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This pack was created by the talented Konstantin Mikhailovich Gribanov and is remarkable for the fact that it was designed not for the full-fledged card game, but rather as a geographical guide for educational purposes as each card has geographical illustrations on both sides. The front of the cards is divided into four sections, the top left hand corner shows the name and the coat of arms of the province, at the top right corner there is a playng card. At the bottom in the left hand corner there is a list of towns and cities of the province and on the right there is a picture of the traditional costume of the province. The backs of all 60 cards (all different)have the maps of the province from the face side
6. HUNTING PLAYING CARDS by M. ZICHY, 1860
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This unique pack created around 1860 by a Hungarian artist called Mihaly Zichy who was court painter during the reign of three emperors. These watercolours were printed on thin cards with the same coloured plaid backs,the upper part of each watercolour pictures a miniature card of one of the suits and values, while the rest of the space on the cards is occupied by scenes of winter imperial hunting.Vivid and variable in topic, they stand in a row that perfectly reflects the hunting process., the roles of the participants , their hunting passion, interactions and pastimes. This pack was never put into circulation and the original pack designed by M. zichy is now housed in the History of Russian Culture Department of the State Hermitage.
7. FOR THE KINGDOM OF POLAND, 1861
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The sketches used for the pack "for the kingdom of Poland" were based on an old, bygone pack of the so-called old Bavarian style (Altbayerische Bild), this pack with its easily recognizable expressive figures was produced for a long time at the Polish card factories, where old classically crude drawings gained definite sophistication. The images from this pack were completely Russified at the Petersburg card factory,however, the Russian engravers kept fine details, poses and attributed of the figures untouched.

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Technical development of Alexander`s Manufactory, which was owned by the card factory, was held back due to the economic situation in the serfdom Russia. In 1859 the Board of Guardians tried to sell the unprofitable factory to a private individual, but no buyers were found. In 1860 Alexander`s Manufactory ceased to exist as a state-owned establishment, the only part of it still functioning was namely the card factory. The Board decided that it should be governed by the Foundling Hospital, a new building should be constructed, and that its manufacturing process and the management itself should be radically changed.
8. "1st GRADE" by A.I. CHARLEMAGNE, 1862
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In connection with the total reorganization of the factory`s current work process it was decided to upgrade the old card Faces, this question was thoroughly mooted over. The design of new playing cards was entrusted to famous painters in particular to the academic member of painting Adolf Iosifovich Charlemagne. He created four design projects for new cards, one of which became widely known by the name "Atlas". These playing cards have been and still are the most popular cards throughout Russia for one and a half centuries
9. "2nd GRADE" by A.I. CHARLEMAGNE, 1870
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Though in his most successful design project, A.I. Charlemagne didn`t create a fundamentally new card style. His sketches were a result of pure masterful remakes of the old drawings used by the tax farmers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Charlemagne`s design was used for the manufacture of "1st Grade", "2nd Grade", and the "Bezique"packs of card as well as for "Extra" cards, after the drastic reformations of the factory in 1860 the second class cards were given the new title of "the second sort" and were subsequently manufactured in packs of 36 cards with a few minor changes in the basic design,though still preserving the established style of the pack.
10. NEW FIGURES by A.I. CHARLEMAGNE, 1862
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"New Face Cards of the academician A.I. Charlemagne" are sketches on four sheets with figures of each suit and two sheets decorated with the design of card "Back" placed on a cardboard cut in half with author`s notes. The style of this deck is often called"renaissance" mostly because all face cards drawn by Charlemagne were wearing medieval costumes. This never published pack truly shows its designer as an artist who perfectly understands the specifics of applied arts through fine lining of the tiniest details, variability of colour shading, and skillful use of Useful space. But the major innovation was that the figures faces acquired distinguishable emotiveness, thoughts and feelings peculiar to each "Portrait".

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11. PATIENCE by AI. CHARLEMAGNE, 1862
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The third set of sketches called by Chalremagne "Character of Playing Cards for Patience" shows the court figure represent different Nations from around the world and from different historical eras.judging by the theme of this pack we could easily entitle it "Ethnographic", though it should be admitted that Charlemagne gave his peculiar artistic imagination some liberty in interpretation of the details of some of the National costumes worn by his characters. This pack wasn`t put into production at the card factory, However,A printing of this pack titled "Souvenir Cards" with a small format for patience in a limited number of copies took place at the colour printing factory in 1997.
12. TRAVELLERS by A.I. CHARLEMAGNE, 1862
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The sketch of the fourth pack designed by A.I. Charlemagne was not named as such by the author but throughout the years it aquired the "Travellers", the sketches were made by the artist in the early 1860`s but the pack was not printed until 1870. this pack seems to contain all the peculiar features of the previous couple of packs, mingles them into some new but no less impressive cocktail. This gets especially noticeable if you look at the Jack of Hearts-Harlequin, the most popular character of the Italian outdoor theatre. Being executed in a very exquisite and expressive way, these drawings bear something distinctively unique, something that goes beyond the frame of the style of this pack.
13. A.E BEIDEMAN`S SKETCH No 1, 1862
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The first sketch of cards by academician of Historical painting Alexander Egotovich Beideman has figures dressed in stylized costumes of the Renaissance (Like Charlemagnes figures),The four suits are also distinguished from each other by the colour scheme, Diamonds were presented with calm pastel green-yellow-brown colouring, Hearts with the same colour scheme and a lavish amount of red and pink shades in addition, Clubs were drawn with the help of white, red, blue and yellow. The most fearsome colour scheme and imagery were used for the figures of Spades, prevalence of Black and darkish Violet, almost like a lightning in a thunderstorm.
14. A.E BIEDEMAN`S SKETCH No 2, 1862
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The second sketch of cards show Biedeman as a skilled master in the field of humorous compositions,Amazingly expressive caricatures of the King of Diamonds portrayed as a pompous joker, the Queen of Hearts portrayed as a playful white cat were completely new to Russian card design. Not all the cards acquire a 2 halved reflection, for example, the King of Clubs was presented as a gloomy old man with horns instead of the crown, the upper half shows a thickset wicked creature with its arms crossed on the chest and the lower half shows a miserable martyr with stumps instead of arms.

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15. BROCADED PLAYING CARDS, 1870
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Such an unusual name for a pack of cards comes from the word "Brocade" a special type of shining smooth cloth with a silky basis woven with gold and silver threads. The Brocaded cards were made of paper of the highest quality, gilded and trimmed with copper paint and was primarily used to satisfy the needs of the Imperial court. Sketches of cards intended to be used on brocaded cards were bought from De La Rue by the manager of the card factory during a visit to London in 1833, however these cards were not favoured by the Emperor Nikolay I. A complete redrawing of the design with many considerable recast details and a significantly improved style was eventually produced by the factory in 1870
16. POLISH, 1881
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"For the kingdom of Poland" manufactured for a long time and well-known among players could not satisfy them anymore, so in 1881 the Factory started production of the new Polish packs of cards of a better quality.The new pack turned out to be a set of illustrations so different and unusual that during the following years it caused variable names for it to appear. For example, in Russia the pack was called "Face Cards" in Germany "Zirkus-Karte"(Circus Cards), in Italy "Trappola" made for an old card game that required a specific pack of 36 cards.
17. M.O. MIKESHIN THE SKETCH OF CARDS, 1890
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The collection of the Russian museum has "a playing cards project for the Imperial Card Factory" designed by the famous Russian sculptor and artist M.O. Mikeshin. The project is executed in the typical Russian style popular at the time, It contains sketches of twelve halves of face cards ,all the courts representing different characters of Russian folk tales. The project of this pack was demonstrated at the Russian Exhibition of Printing in St Petersburg in 1895 and earned rather flattering reviews, However the pack wasn`t manufactured, players preferred refined stylization to eclectic and detailed excesses like facial expressions of the queens and kings which bothered players and distracted them from the game.
18. SUPERIOR SORT by N.N. KARAZIN, 1897
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Creating characters for the new Russian cards of the Superior Sort, N.N Karazin in the highest degree distinguished himself as a real expert in ethnographical nuances. The cards that were often called "Historical" illustrated characters in National costumes with corresponding details representing various nationalities spread across the territory of the Russian Empire. Unfortunately these cards gained no popularity among buyers, the reason for this might be the fact that the integrity of the card stylistics was lost because the centre of the author`s attention had shifted to external artistic effects. In addition, these images seem fuzzy and the figures are too small and appear lost in the card.

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After the pack of cards "Superior Sort" by N.N Karazin had been manufactured, a long slack period in the process of card creation started. Only in 1911 new samples appeared, having failed to involve Russian artists in the process of card design, the factory started to produce new packs of the superior sort using designs purchased from an artist working at the famous Dondorf Card Factory in Germany. Four packs were designed and remained in production for many decades.
19. RUSSIAN STYLE, 1911
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One of the packs titled "Russian Style" allowed Russia to claim that at last playing cards in the true National spirit spirit appeared. This pack is noteworthy due to the fact that its sketches were created were created under the influence of a photo-album of the Imperial charity fancy-dress ball in the style of the 17th century, which took place in 1903. This can be proven by an obvious similarity of the Queen of Clubs to the costume and appearance of the Great Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, while the Queen of Hearts looks exactly like the Picture of the Great Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna.
20. ROCOCO, 1911
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Another pack designed by the German Artist, the Rococo design used for the design of this pack is some kind of an `Enfant terrible` left to Europe by the baroque style dying away in the first half of the 18th century. The name of the style "Rococo" comes from a French word "Rocaille" which means a curl or a shell. Tough pretentiousness and exceeding sugarness inherited from the Baroque style were smoothed by the Rococo style and turned into a lazy hedonism and intimate boudoirism.
21. NEW STYLE, 1911
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The images for this pack were made in the Art Nouveau style, a very popular style in Russia in the early 20th century, which was able to satisy new artistic requirements of the Russian society. The detailed representation of the outlines of white conventional costumes of all the characters highlights their vivid expressive faces making this pack of cards original and special. All the face cards of each suit are united by a common theme, but these themes aren`t really connected with each other, they are mostly eclectic and mingled.
22. FANCY, 1911
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Playing cards called "Mittelalter-Spieles" manufactured by Dondorf in Germany served as a prototype for the Fancy pack. Through smuggling routes these Medieval decks were spreading and eventually reached Russia where they enjoyed great popularity because of the good quality of printing and the exquisite European drawings. Without further ado the Russian card department decided to fight against smuggling in its own way and soon issued exactly the same medieval pack, of course, adjusted to the realities of Russia, Basically the difference between the two packs can be seen in the finely dawn crosses on the orbs held by the kings, Cyrillic characters and ,of course, a brand "for the benefit of the Imperial Foundling Hospital" on the Ace of Diamonds.

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