Playing cards on stamps:
1. USPS’s stamp – The King and Queen of Hearts (out of stock):
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Tags: art, bridge, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, Karte, naipes, philately, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, stamp
Several posters inspired by playing cards.
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1. Vintage Playing Card Poster by Town Moto
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Tags: Air India, art, Beatles, carta, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, naipes, Playing Card Art, playing card collecting, playing cards, poster, Spielkarte, Town Moto
Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alexeieff (18 April 1901 – 9 August 1982) was a Russian Empire-born artist, filmmaker and illustrator who lived and worked mainly in Paris. He and his second wife Claire Parker (1910–1981) are credited with inventing the pinscreen as well as the animation technique totalization. In all Alexeieff produced 6 films on the pinscreen, 41 advertising films and illustrated 41 books.
Alexander’s colour wood engravings for Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades (1923).
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Tags: Alexandre Alexeieff, art, collecting, design, игральные карты, playing card collecting, playing cards, Playing Cards and Art, Pushkin, The Queen of Spades, wood engraving
Hi. I happened to meet several jolly crowds. They asked me to keep them company over the next few days… Poker, you know. So do not feel lonely, I will be back on Friday… if I do not lose my blog 🙂
Marvel Comics Heroes Playing Poker by Andrea Di Vito
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Tags: Andrea Di Vito, Andy Thomas, art, design, Marvel Comics, monsters, Monsters Playing Poker, Otis Frampton, playing card collecting, playing cards, poker, Presidents Playing Poker, True Blues
Italian artist Gaetano Bellei (1857-1922) dedicated some of his artworks (oil paintings) to playing card gamers. He liked to depict old people for this series of his artworks. Look how masterfully he conveyed emotions of players. I have to think that his choice of old people was not random. As a rule old people are more sincere in their emotions as they left their poker faces in their youth 🙂 I guess that is why these artworks based on Gaetano’s talent look so convincingly.
The Players Choice
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Tags: art, card game, card players, collecting, design, гральні карти, Gaetano Bellei, Italy, oil paintings, playing card collecting, playing cards, Playing Cards and Art, poker
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 