September
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It's been a busy
month, but a pleasant one as well. We had a sort of Dutch Indian summer
here, a week with lots of sunshine and unprecedented temperatures for
September, and I've had a few meetings with a Dutch artist, who had
already designed a deck for a Dutch advertising agency in 1996. I liked
his style very much and am going to publish a second deck with his work
later this year. So I've been negotiating with a printer and have begun
with the pre-press work. Not
many decks have reached my mailbox this month though........
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There was an interesting
antique Belgian deck, but too crudely designed to suit my taste, so that
was sold again. But I've added the scans to the Old
School xpo. I also received the renewed edition of the Eisberg
Freistadt deck, now published as the Drowning World poker deck, and will
add that to the Kahn&Selesnik xpo
later this month. And then there was this deck...... |
It's one of the about 70 decks that Elaine M. Lewis from Bradford (UK) has
produced and when I say produced it means that she has designed and hand
coloured each card in her decks. She produced her first deck, "Citicards",
in 1990 and this
year she has just finished her latest transformation deck "Once upon a
Time" (fairy tale themed). With this production method it's understandable
that each deck was published in a very limited edition, sometimes only 15 copies
were made.
This deck was published in 1994 as "Coney Island" and it's her first
transformation deck. Only 50 numbered decks were made. This deck has # 26. Her
designs of the court cards are mostly based on the English or International
pattern. In this pack all the courts play an instrument and the voice is one of
them.
Coney
Island is a peninsula at the southern part of Brooklyn, New York. The amusement
area was developed in the 19th century and had it's heydays between 1880 and
1940. Judging by the designs of the pip cards I think that Elaine Lewis has
portrayed the delights of the Coney Island from around 1900.
So
for now...... ENJOY and make sure to click the aces here below.
The deck consists of
52 cards, a joker, a title card and a checklist card.
The back is silver coloured, just like the box.
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