Showing posts with label russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label russia. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Russian playing cards by piatnik

Russian playing cards by piatnik.
52 cards+ 3 jokers.
note the ace of diamonds. it bears an image of a pelican , feeding it's chicks on it's blood.
this act of maternal sacrifice is appopriate when you con sider that in the good old days, a tax was levied on theese cards, for the benifit of the imperial orphanage- sweet....








compare this deck with one produced about 50 years earlier.
http://anthonylesq.blogspot.com/2011/10/russian-playing-cards.html

Thursday, 6 October 2011

russian playing cards

Russian playing cards, c. 1950
54 cards, 2 jokers, (identical)
I would greatly appreceate if anyone would translate the inscriptions on the cards

                                                                       
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compare this with a deck from 2010