| 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. |
| Bob Lancaster's Gallery of Unusual Playing-Cards | As well as illustrations, this site has large numbers of links to web sites of playing-card collectors, manufacturers and other relevant information. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Bacon | Two For His Heels | Online shop for Playing Cards and Card Game Collectibles |
| Frank Bartlett MBE | Playing Cards Only | A selection of modern and classical playing cards to inform and entertain all ages. |
| Yasha Beresiner | InterCol London | Dealer in playing-cards, books, prints and ephemera. Free valuation service. |
| Nick Berger | Carousel Auctions | Online auctions of playing-cards and other gaming equipment, with a forum for news and discussions. |
| Edi Brum | Brumoli's Homepage | Hobbies, including playing-cards collecting, and links |
| Peggy Gertner | A "not-so-serious" look at card collecting | This site contains articles and cartoons about card collecting and a Mystery of the Month section where visitors are invited to provide information on the featured deck. |
| Jim Esteph | Newton's Novelties | The Playing-Card Superstore |
| Evgeny Grygorenko | Russian Playing Cards | Russian and other playing-cards for exchange with other collectors |
| Paul Huson | paulhuson.com | Books, publications and current projects. |
| Ruth Kedar | Playing-Cards by Ruth Kedar | New playing-card designs: Analog, Duolog and Adobe |
| PJ Madsen | Virtual Playing Card Museum | The site displays some of the favorite decks in PJ Madsen's collection. Whenever possible he has also tried to give as much information about the decks as possible. |
| Barry Magarick | Antique Playing Card Collection | |
| Robert V. O'Neill | O'Neill Tarot Library | Scholarly studies into the potential meaning of the early Tarot. |
| Balázs Pál Nagy | Baller's Playing Cards | Limited and numbered editions of handmade and professionally printed playing cards: decks, uncut sheets, leather-bound sample books and other card art especially designed for serious 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. |
| Ian Roth | Ian Roth Design | Presenting a unique deck of cards designed by this young New York- based artist and filmmaker. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Simon Wintle | The World of Playing Cards | Playing cards from around the world, their history, lore, design and manufacture. The site contains reviews of new packs, antique cards, a gallery of playing card designers, swap list, links and much more. Suitable for beginners, researchers, historians, collectors and the curious. |
| Peter Wood | Hugobia | Hugobia represents the work of UK artist Peter Wood. Split into themed 'Lands' IPCS members will want to visit 'Pipland' to see his Playing Cards both published and looking for a publisher! |
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.