See also the consolidated alphabetical index of articles.
Note: From here onwards The Playing-Card is issued four times a year.
Vol. 33 (2004 – 2005)
- Playing the Game: Tarocco Ticinese
48-Card Packs in Italy
Goodall’s Royal Masonic Playing Cards
Entre tarot et jeux de cour: une carte à jouer italienne
Marziano da Tortona’s Tractus de deificatione sexdecim heroum Part 1
Stoppa - Playing the Game: The Benelux Games of Trumps
An Enigmatic Betrothal on Lucas van Leyden’s Painting The Card Reader
Henry Druitt Phillips
Marziano da Tortona’s Tractus de deificatione sexdecim heroum Part 2
Rummy Mahjong – Playing Cards on Tiles
Taxes on Playing Cards in Argentina
The Sicilian Trumps - The Sicilian Trumps
Playing Cards of the Great exhibition in London, 1851
American Indian Playing-Cards of French and English Derivation
Maltese Playing Card makers 1684-1750
Whist-Regeln in Kontinentaleuropa bis 1800 - Playing the Game: Schnellen, Hucklebuck & Donut
A Playing Card Discovery in Schongau (Bavaria)
Augustus Wollaston Franks
Brief Sketch of the History of Tarot Cards
Kakkuri: The Last Yomi Game of Japan
Lady Charlotte Schreiber: Card Collector Extraordinary
The Holmblad Playing Card Patterns
Worshipful Company of maker’s of Playing Cards 1887 Ladies Pack
Vol. 34 (2005-2006)
- The Talon/BDK Meeting 2005
An Early 20th Century Pack of French Suited Cards by Narayan Ramachandra Kelkar
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 - IPCS Turnhout Convention report
The ASESCOIN 2005 meeting
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 - In Memoriam Klaus Reisinger 1941 – 2006
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
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 - Obituary: Lorna Collett
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
Vol. 35 (2006 – 2007)
- Playing the Game: Truf
Collecting Australian Playing Cards
The Emergence of the Tulip on Playing and Oracle Cards
Mahjong(g) before and after Mahjong(g): Part 2
I Tarocchi della Collezione Rothschild al Louvre: Nuove Proposte di Lettura
Komi and Nakash – Two gambling games of Orissa - Playing the Game: Scharwenzel
From Schongau to St Petersburg
Very Old Wrappers
Playing cards and Tax Stamps form Czechoslovakia
Did Card Makers Always Make Their Own Cards - Playing the Game: Twenty Two
Embarrassing Tiles: Mahjong and the Taipings
Early Cards of Bordeaux
Some Remarks on the Relationship between Church and Card Games
Tarabish - Playing the Game: Chinese games, Big Three and Fight the Landlord
Some Remarks on the Relationship between Church and Card Games Part 2
The Hunting pack made by Mihály Zichy
Rabouge – History, Rules, Cards
The Origins of Euchre
Le Prince à la Table de Jeu
Vol. 36 (2007-2008)
- Playing-card Backs
The Stralsund Single-faced Pattern
Early Italian Lists of Tarot Trumps
Giovanni del Ponte and the dating of the Rothschild cards in the Louvre: some further considerations
Seven Bridge
Playing the Game: Compendium Games - Report from Ravenna
Recognizing a Nineteenth-Century Apache Playing Card Artist: The Tonto Naipero
Bhavnagar State Historical Cards: New Finds
Du piquet au whist: les marqueurs de jeu de cartes entre France et Grande-Bretagne
Cards and Card-Playing in Muscovite Russia
Playing the Game: Italian Games and Recent Books - Latvian wartime playing-cards
French suited tarot decks in Denmark and the Jacob Holmblad Animal tarot
A Pair of Transformation Packs
Playing Cards in Rome – 15th- 17th Centuries
Playing the Game: Five-player Dasavatartas from West Bengal - Undescribed Standard Patterns
Crouds in the Streets, Meetings at the Tables
Black Peter – a Brigand?
Playing-cards by Academician Sharleman
A Sequel to Max Ruh’s “Playing-Card Backs”
Array Rummy Game
Playing the Game: Card games with layouts
Vol. 37 (2008-2009)
- Arundhati and Saptarishis (Seven Sages)
Flowers and Kings: A Hypothesis of their Function in Early Ma Que
Playing Cards: Uses and Abuses
Storing and Cataloguing a Small Playing Card Collection
Page One
Marked Playing Cards
Playing the Game: Modern Skruuvi - Entre farsa et barzelletta: jeux de cartes italiens autour 1500
Quartet Games and their History
The Devil and the Two of Hearts
Playing the Game: Troggu in Visperterminen - Back to Card Backs: Rosart’s Tarotées
Gabriel Shire Tregear and “The March of Intellect” Card Game
The Fennell series of Irish Heroic & Historic Playing Cards
Printing Methods used in the Manufacture of Playing-cards
Was there a “Portrait de Nice”?
Maldivian card games: rules, language and history
Playing the Game: Dai Fugô - Aspects of Self Playing-Cards
Joker Collecting and Manufacturers
Dasamahavidyas – the Ten Mahavidyas
Three Centuries of Playing-cards in the Netherlands 1600 – 1900
Roomse Constitutie Kaarten – fallible for losers, infallible for winners.
Playing the Game: Tarock News
Vol. 38 (2009-2010)
- Members Only Area of Web Site
New Issues on the Web
Le portrait de Pampelune
Miniature Cards from the 19th Century
From the Symbolism of Wings to the Symbolism of Tarot Cards
Taxes on Playing-Cards in the Republic of San Marino
Playing the Game: Indian games – double tricks and collecting tens - Obituary: Trevor Denning
October in Toronto
Playing the Game: Iberian Triumphs Worldwide
The magion Experience in Italy, A mahjong District in (Emilia) Romagna
The Proto-historiography of Playing Cards:
Early Hypotheses and Beliefs About the Origins of Cards and Card Games in Europe
Cartographic and Map Playing Cards 1590-1798 - In Memoriam Bob Haleber
Dutch Scenic Aces
Domino Cards
Classifying Non-standard Playing Cards
A Century with the Waite-Smith Tarot (and all the others …) - Dawson’s Game: Blackjack and the Klondike
Port Books
Collecting Playing-cards in China
Chamundeshwari Chad
Two fifteenth-century Italian cards
Playing the Game: Minchiate
Vol. 39 (2010-2011)
- Playing the Game: Origin of Königrufen
Portugal Playing Card Tax – Imposto do cartas de jogar
El Juego de naypes of Fernando de la Torre – A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Card Game - Report from the Convencaò de Lisboa
When (and how) did Tarot reach Germany
Playing-card Taxes in Uruguay
The story behind a simple receipt
La marque dans la famille des jeux hollandais de bel-bruyten
Court figures in pre-standardized France - Playing the Game: Race Games with Playing-Cards
Twelve-suited 144 Cards Gul aur Bulbul Ganjifa,
Expanded Form of 96 cards Moghul Ganjifa from Banganapalle
Desert Island Games
A transition, a problem and more on Llewellyn
Tokens for Whist, Part I: Hoyle’s Method of Scoring and other Whist Counters - Playing the Game: The Influence of Magic
Tokens for Whist Part II: From Simple to Quadruple
Winning Hearts and Minds: The Theory Behind the Playing-Card Backs Designed by Owen Jones
A Note on the History of Cuccù
The Soldier´s Prayerbook gave rise to a press-law suit in 1779
Vol. 40 (2011-2012)
- Playing the Game: Marimba… without mallets
From ‘britch’ to ‘bridge’: early French accounts of the 1880’s and 1890’s
Two trompe-l’oeils with playing-cards
Tiles
Russian Playing Card History – From the Beginnings to 1917 - Report from the Convention in Malmö
Playing the Game: Playing cards and Chess
Playing Cards in the Danish Church
World War I and card playing as shown on forces’ postcards
The Ungers: A 19th century playing-card making family in Győr, Hungary - Obituary Prof. Sir Michael Dummett
Playing the Game: Tarocchi with Table Talk – The 62-card Game in Piedicavallo
The IPCS – Forty Years Ago
Felix Solesio at Home
Fake English cards and a note on Ludlow’s Knights aces
Playing Card Containers
I primi giochi di carte nella repubblica fiorentina - Playing the Game: Polish Taroki
On types, patterns and standards
A return visit to the Cuming Museum
Fancy Conjuring Playing Cards: A New Collecting Fashion?
Imprimait-on des cartes à jouer à Ferrare en 1436 ?
Vol. 41 (2012-2013)
- A Journey to the German Colonies
Criterial characteristics and the development of American court cards from 1820-60
From Cards to Tiles: The Origin of Mahjong(g)’s Earliest Suit Names - Report from the 2012 Convention
Playing the Game: Chinese Patience
In Search of Tarot Sources – After Fifteen Years
Un “Padovano” cartaro accusato di frode
A Response to Walter Haas
The Playing Card in Perpignan, from the 14th to the 19th Century
Restoration of playing cards - Playing the Game: From Begging to Pitching
Cards and Cards: Early References to Playing Cards in England
Milanese playing card drawings in the British Museum
More English influences on major US court designs
Royal Finery on Playing Cards
Beer Steins - Playing the Game: Austrian Calling Games
À mi-chemin entre Venise et Florence : le Chariot ferrarais du Musée français de la carte à jouer
Playing cards at Strangers’ Hall, Norwich
A kind of answer to Ken Lodge
The Rwandan appropriation of a Portuguese game: amaturufu and ibigurasha
Vol. 42 (2013-2014)
- Obituary Prof. Dr. Detlef Hoffmann
Playing the Game: Minimal Card Games: Kop and Baśka
1691 Scottish Peers’ Heraldic Playing Cards
The Tarot de Marseille – Facts and Fallacies. Part I
Walter Scharff – the Fate of an Unorthodox Maker of Playing Cards - Playing the Game: Getaway: the Punjabi Inflation Game
Illustrated backs of cards made in Milan
Realism in European cards
The Tarot de Marseille – Facts and Fallacies. Part II
Oppenheimer & Sulzbacher, Vereinigte Kunstanstalten Senkeisen (vSk) and Carl Schaller - Obituaries: George Beal and Max Ruh
Playing the Game: Reversed Card Fireworks
Imported cards in 19th century Britain
I tarocchi nel Regno Sabaudo dal 1815 all’Unità d’Italia (1)
Identifying a Maker Using Stencil Patterns - Playing the Game: Varieties of Cucumber
Hudson Industries – an Australian playing card maker
The Stag Rider from the So-called “Tarot of Alessandro Sforza” at the Museo Civico di Castello Ursino of Catania
I tarocchi nel Regno Sabaudo dal 1815 all’Unità d’Italia (2)
Vol. 43 (2014-2015)
- Playing the Game: Card Games on Poster Stamps
News from Austria’s Past (1): Playing-card Makers in Agram
A fascinating find at Haddon Hall
Paying by card before plastic was invented
An analysis of wood-block characteristics - Obituary Eddie Cass
The Berlin Convention 2014
A sniff of salt for a quarter of a playing card
Comments to the article “Playing the Game: Card games on poster stamps”
Whitaker, Steer, Willis & Perry: a tale of suit signs and number cards
Poker cards – Deviations from the Standard - Playing the Game: Climbing and Throwing Eggs
Playing cards with added value
Un marqueur de tressette ? (ou “La Constance l’emporte”…)
News from Austria’s Past (2): Aloys Hofmann, a Viennese cardmaker
Nineteenth Century Duplicate Whist Playing Card Holders - Playing the Game: Gnav in Germany
Vintage Movie Star Playing Cards from Brazil
Dating and its associated problems
Four Russian Playing-card Packs
Otto Spalinger – an artist and his playing-cards
Hoyle abroad, II: Hoyle in French
News from Austria’s Past (3): Constantin Kaulitzy, a cardmaker in Neusatz
Vol. 44 (2015-2016)
- A presentation of the Gallica database (the BnF’s digital library) and its playing-card contents
From Italy to France and back again
Origin of Tarots – the Avignon Hypothesis
The Fall and Rise of Thomas Woolley & the Decline and Fall of Creswick
News from Austria’s Past (4): The playing-card maker Carl Hofer (Hoffer)
1499-1506: Firenze – Nuove informazioni sulle carte fiorentine - The 2015 IPCS Convention in Turnhout
Early French court figures and the regional portraits
Iraqi Most Wanted
The Tarock of the Skat inventors, Part 1: Grosstarock Redefined - Obituary Marie-Claude Atger-Ravel
1377: Firenze – Condanne ai giocatori di naibi
The Tarock of the Skat inventors, Part 2: The Weimar Classics and a Ludemic View on Tarock, Hombre, and Skat
Shipwreck in Alderney, a Pack with a Story
News from Austria’s Past (5): Makers of Playing-Cards in Cheb/Eger (Bohemia). Part 1: 16th – 17th centuries
‘Trionfi alla franciosa finiti e non finiti’ – Le tarot en France avant 1500
Playing-card taxes in New Zealand - Obituaries Karl Gerich, Tom Dawson
Playing the Game: ǂXànúsìas played by the Ju|’hoansi in |Xae|xae, Botswana
New Insights into the So-called Alessandro Sforza Deck
A Lisbon Find
News from Austria’s Past (6): A strange Austrian Tarot
Early French court figures and the regional portraits (continued)
Vol. 45 (2016-2017)
- Obituaries: Alberto Milano, Ivo de Cock, Thomas Zeuner
Playing the Game: Perlaggen – the first UNESCO recognised card game
‘Arts on Cards’ – Part One: Portraits
The pros and cons of eBay
News from Austria’s Past (7): Makers of Playing-Cards in Cheb/Eger (Bohemia) – Part 2: 18th – 19th centuries - Obituaries: Werner Seyffertitz, Franz Braun, Helmut Feindura
Playing the Game: Trip to Austria – Tarock, Yaks and Ladinisch
Joseph Hunt revisited and the development of the wood-block designs
Why do we have labels and what do they tell us? The case of Dondorf’s Birma-Karte
Double Bohemian Cards – a nearly unknown standard
‘Arts on Cards’ – Part Two: Landscapes - Obituaries (K. Frank Jensen, Adrienne Gurr)
Playing the Game: Fishing in 18th-century Yorkshire
Early Dragons
News from Austria’s Past (8): The Playing Card Factory C. Titze & Schinkay in Vienna
Trappola was invented by Trapolin
‘Arts on Cards’ – Part Three: Animals (I)
Hidden treasures in the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris - Playing-cards found in a historic clock at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich The ESSO – DKW Encounter
Gibbon’ Swiss Playing Cards
An intriguing find
‘Arts on Cards’ – Part Four: Animals (II)
The Tarock of the Skat Inventors, Part III. Whither Tarock Hombre? The Berliner Spielalmanach series and a Copyright Case in Berlin, early 19th Century
Vol. 46 (2017-2018)
- The Future of the IPCS
Obituaries Dudley Ollis, Major ‘Donald’ Welsh
An undiscovered Kashmiri ganjifa at Knebworth House
News from Austria’s Past (9): The strange afterlife of the Viennese playing card maker Leopold Keim - The Rise and Demise of the Pierre Steinmann Card-Factory in Copenhagen, 1798-1824
The Orfeo Conundrum
An Uncommon Má Jiàng Pattern from Fujian?
An Atthalin Transformation pack enhanced with hand-written verse
Electrotypes - Results of the IPCS Members Survey
The Henry Hart puzzle
Tarots et autres cartes du XVe siècle exposés en 1880 à Turin
A new home for the former United States Playing Card Company collection
Show Me Your Card and Let Me Know Who You Are
News from Austria’s Past (10): Online Catalogues of two Viennese Museum Collections - No. 4