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| CHINA
- NON STANDARD CARDS
- Hebei Maya Poker Culture Co., Ltd.
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| 200743 Hebei Maya Poker Culture Co., Ltd. 2nd World War. 52 + JJ (all different), complete. Offset, 87x62 mm, rc, Backs: Celebrating crowd. c2005.
Reproductions of B/W pictures taken during WW2 from the Soviet point of view.
Min. damaged ill. OCase, mint.
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| RUSSIA
- NON STANDARD CARDS
- Alexei Orleansky, Rybinsk.
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| 200670 Alexei Orleansky, Rybinsk. Russian Beer. Design: Alexei Orleansky. 36 + JJJ (all different) + title card, complete. Color digital printing, 90x56 mm, rc, Backs: Old beer ad: lobster serves up beer. 2006.
The courts display the Russian pattern, yet the kings hold a stein, the queens a glass and the jacks a bottle of beer in the hand. The aces are illustrated with old beer trademarks and the jokers reproduce caricatures of beer drinkers.
Min. damaged OCase, mint.
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| ITALY
- NON STANDARD TAROT CARDS
- Lo Scarabeo, Torino (printed by Carta Mundi, Turnhout).
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| 200630 Lo Scarabeo, Torino (printed by Carta Mundi, Turnhout). Tarots of Casanova. Le Tarot de Casanova. Design: Luca Raimondo after an idea by Mario Pignatiello. 78 + title card + EC, complete. Offset, 120x66 mm, rc, Backs: Mask on creased cloth, blue. 2000.
Lit.: Eroticism V 9.82.
The unbelievable amorous adventures of the gentleman from Venice and the city itself are put on the stage of the present tarot deck.
OCase, multilingual booklet (64 pp., English, Italian, Spanish, French, German), mint.
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| AUSTRIA
- NON STANDARD CARDS
- Ferd. Piatnik & Sons, Vienna XIV.
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| 330511 Ferd. Piatnik & Sons, Vienna XIV. Beautiful Girls. No. 1001. 52 + JJJ, complete. Offset, 88x63 mm, rc, Backs: Masks, streamers and bottle of champagne on a tray, dark-blue. 1957.
Lit.: Braun 996; Eroticism III 11.181 A; Segeth [1986] 226.
Retouched color pictures of quite denuded ladies, some in the style of the 30s. The back is signed W.M (Willy Mayrl?).
OCase, mint.
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| GREAT BRITAIN
- NON STANDARD CARDS
- Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd., London, for Glenalan Ltd., Glasgow.
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| 200603 Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd., London, for Glenalan Ltd., Glasgow. Souvenir Playing Cards. 52 selected views of Scotland. Design: Scottish Tourist Board, British Travel and Holidays Association. 52 + JJ, compl. Relief halftone, 89x58 mm, rc, Backs: Bagpiper standing against the background of an outline map of Scotland. With the British tax wrapper (Duty Three Pence) and a detached US tax stamp 1940-1965 (cancelled by hand: TRR and 8/1/62, probably for August 1, 1962). 1962.
Lit.: Braun 1077.
All cards are illustrated with B/W photos of Scottish sights: castles, bridges, views of cities, landscapes...
OBox, mint.
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