Category Archives: cards

Reproduction of Cotta deck (1805) from Germany

Wonderful commissioned deck with very fine full-colour artwork, accompanying book explaining the references, and a puzzle to solve
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Created as collage with red and black paper mounted on A3 paper
This time with every court card as part of a triptych
EJ has designed another couple of decks (sport and fashion) but they have yet to be published

https://emmanueljose.com/
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Created as collage with red and black paper mounted on A3 paper
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Created as collage with red and black paper mounted on A3 paper
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Created as collage with red and black paper mounted on A3 paper
The spade suit has a nice ‘triptych’ of romance among the clowns

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I don’t know what game you play with these
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Coins, strings, myriads of coins were the original suits, which became coins, clubs, and so on via the Mamluk style in Egypt
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The legendary Effin’ Birds set from the man behind Swear Trek
Hat tip to his son for the ‘Eat Farts’ card
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Piedmontese 5-suited Tarocco deck
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