Impropriety is the soul of wit.

- W Somerset Maugham
 

Naked people have very little influence in our society

- Mark Twain

Artists: Anthony Donaldson's joker is on the left and Anthony Green's joker is on the right.

Anthony Green has/had works displayed in Great Britain

	Belfast - Ulster Museum
	Cardiff - National Museum of Wales
	Local Education Authorities - Leicester
	London - Arts Council of Great Britain Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Contemporary Art Society Council for National Academic Awards Department of the Environment Ind Coope Royal Academy Tate Gallery
	Poole - Poole Technical College
	Rochdale - Rochdale Art Gallery
	Southampton - City Art Gallery

and in Brazil

Olinda - Olinda Museum

and in Japan

	Ito - Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art
	Tochigi - Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art

and in the Netherlands

	Haarlem - Frans Halsmuseum
	Rotterdam - Museum Boymans-van Benningen

and in the United States

Baltimore - Museum of Art

Anthony Donaldson has/had works displayed in Great Britain

	Belfast - Arts Council of Northern Ireland Ulster Museum
	Bradford - Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
	Liverpool - Walker Art Gallery
	Local Education Authorities - Leicester
	London - Arts Council of Great Britain Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Contemporary Art Society Department of the Environment Tate Gallery Thompson Newspapers Limited
	Sheffield - Sheffield City Art Galleries

and in Brazil

	Olinda - Olinda Museum
	Pôrto Alegre - Pôrto Alegre Museum

and in Germany

Essen - Museum Folkwang

and in the Netherlands

Utrecht - Hedendaagse Kunst

Artist: Georgina Harvey

Victoria Playing Cards No. 29 designed 1988

Source: wopc.co.uk

Artist: Peter Wood

Transformation deck 2000 Pips.  It's raining pips in this, one of two different jokers in the deck.

You can contact Peter at PWood16103@aol.com or write
Peter Wood
7 Brixham Close
Stevenage
Herts
SG1 2RU
UK

Source: The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards!, an unusual site, worth a visit...

Cocktails Patience aluminium playing cards

Although aluminium is the 3rd most common element on earth, it always occurs chemically joined to another metal.  Prior to 1886, extracting aluminium from other metals was a costly endeavour, making the refined metal nearly as precious as gold.  But it was in that year that a cheap process for such extraction was invented, and suddenly, everyday items started being made out of aluminium which would have been unthinkably expensive before.  Some of these items were actually better suited to the older, more traditional materials, but creating them out of aluminium was a novelty.  One such novelty item was aluminium playing cards, decks of which were sold as souvenirs at World's Fairs in the 1890's.  The cards were easily bent and scratched, and soon the novelty wore off.  Not many aluminium decks were made after that.

This deck, made in the 1920's by Hauserman, was unusual, even for an aluminium deck: its courts are non-standard, featuring art deco depictions of the rich crowd.  Also, it is a "patience-sized" deck, being only 1 5/8" x 2 3/8" (the image above has been enlarged for better viewing).  The box reads "Natural Alumimium Playing Cards - Cocktail Series - Charles L King - New York, New York - Made in Austria".

Source: The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards!

Ukrainian playing card

Source: englishrussia.com English Russia

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