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Playing Card Collectors'
Organizations
For Americans, there are two main organizations
located in the USA: 52 Plus Joker, and the Chicago
Playing Card Collectors. Many serious playing card
collectors also belong to the International Playing Card
Society, in Britain and the English Playing Card Society
in England. Newt's Dad and/or Newton's
Novelties belongs to and supports all four.
If you are considering
the hobby of collecting playing cards these
organizations are a great way to get started. They
provide insight, education, and just pure love for the
hobby.
52
Plus Joker
Chicago Playing Card Collectors, Inc.
The International Playing-Card Society
English
Playing Card Society, Inc.
Other Slick Places on the Web about Playing Cards:
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- Publication:
- "Clear the Decks"
- Society aims:
- 52 Plus Joker was formed to cater to the interests
of American antique deck collectors. Its purpose is
sharing information and stimulating interest in the
collecting of playing cards and related items. As
many of our members have playing card interests
which go far beyond this narrow range, we hope to
appeal to all interests by not restricting the
activities of the Club to American decks.
- Activities:
- Publishes bulletin, publishes membership roster,
holds annual convention, holds postal auctions.
- Contact:
- Janice Miller (Secretary/Treasurer)
52 PLUS JOKER
670 Carlton Drive
Elgin, IL 60120-4008
U.S.A.
- Phone:
- +1-(847) 697 - 5819
- E-mail:
- illhawkeye@msn.com
- Website:
- http://www.52plusjoker.org
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- Publication:
- C.P.C.C. Bulletin
- Society aims:
- Chicago Playing Card Collectors, Inc. was founded
in 1951 as a not-for-profit corporation in the State
of Illinois. The club has 3 objectives:
1. to encourage and promote the hobby of playing
card collecting
2. to acquire and disperse knowledge on the subject
3. to foster an interest in this fascinating and
educational theme.
- Activities:
- We publish a Membership Directory yearly. This
directory extends the privilege of trading with
members all over the world. In addition, we publish
a quarterly CPCC Bulletin (Lib. of Congress #
67-30326). We also have decks, books and catalogs
available through the Bulletin and mail auctions
which feature cards, decks and literature on the
subject of playing cards. General meetings are held
in Chicago on the third Sunday of each month (not
January, June, July, August or September). Our big
card convention is held in September, alternating
between Chicago and other cities around the USA.
Club meeting and convention activities include
card-trading, auctions, talks and exhibits of cards
and card-lore.
- Contact:
- CPCC, Inc.
c/o Betsy Behrendt
1319 East Sanborn
Palatine, IL 60067
U.S.A.
- Phone:
- +1-(770)-992-7478
- Website:
- http://www.cpccinc.org/
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- Publications:
- "The Playing-Card"
- Society aims:
- Founded in 1972 to promote the study and
collection of playing-cards and card games
worldwide.
- Activities:
- Publishes journal/newsletter, membership list,
occasional monographs and pattern sheets of standard
cards. Holds annual convention (generally in a
European city and in association with another
playing-card society) and quarterly meetings in
London at which talks are given and the
trading/exchange of playing-cards takes place.
Awards annual Modiano Prize for a recently-published
article or monograph which has contributed to the
knowledge of some aspect of the origins and history
of playing-cards or card games and their rules.
- Contact:
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Mrs Barbara Clark
3570 Delaware Common
Indianapolis IN 46220-3787
E-mail: brew@iquest.net
USA
- Website:
- http://www.pagat.com/ipcs/
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- Publication:
- The
Society publishes a well-illustrated, A4 Newsletter
which is free to members; this is dispatched three
times a year and comprises well over 100 pages
yearly. This builds up into a reference source, with
an index, containing information which is not
readily available through any other source. Members
are invited to contribute articles to the
Newsletter.
- Society aims:
- The
purpose of the Society is to bring together
collectors, researchers, manufacturers, museums and
libraries, and all persons interested who wish to
increase their knowledge of English playing cards
and card games, their makers and designers. An
informative, well illustrated and readable
newsletter is published quarterly (see below)
together with details of meetings, auctions, new
publications and recent discoveries. A list of all
members and their individual interests is produced
once a year..
- Activities:
- Stay
Tuned.
- Contact:
- EPCS
c/o John Sings
P O Box 29
North Walsham
Norfolk
- Phone:
- +01692650496
- Website:
- http://www.wopc.co.uk/epcs/index.html
You can also check our the host site for The English
Playing Card Society at http://www.wopc.co.uk
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- Other
Slick Places on the Web about Playing Cards:
World
of Playing Cards - An awesome place where you
can explore about playing cards, their history,
design and manufacture, and see many different cards
from around the world.
Pagat's
Card Game Web Site - Brings
you rules and information about card and tile games
from all parts of the world. Great resource!
The
Card House - Consider themselves to be one of
the best in playing card information. I would
probably have to agree with them.
D.
J. McAdam Encyclopedia of Playing Cards - The
intention of this site is to list all known major
varieties of playing cards, including both
out-of-print decks and decks that are currently in
print.
Gunther
Anderson's Card Collection - We used Gunther's
list of manufacturers to get started in the selling
of playing cards. Nice site to get ideas on
how to set up your collection.
The
Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards -
A celebration of playing cards, especially those
with non-standard Jacks, Queens and Kings. An
excellent resource.
PJ
Madsen's Virtual Playing Card Museum - A cool
virtual museum on the internet!
Andy's
Playing Cards - An interesting site with
numerous illustrations of playing cards, links, and
an article on the history of playing cards.
Dekcollect.com -
An ever changing website devoted to
the hobby of collecting playing cards.
Barry
Magarick's Antique Playing Card
- Images
and information on antique playing cards.
Great look at older cards.
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