THE

DECKS

 

The WOPC site shows 3 decks: the Bridgpoker deck from the collection of Barney Townsend, the Spanish suited non-standard deck from the collection of Alberto Pérez Conzález and a more conventional version of the Spanish pattern from the collection of Enrique García Martín. After having announced my Bridgpoker deck as new Deck of the Month in a few Facebook groups about playing cards on May 1st, reactions came in from members of the "Pre-1950 Playing Cards - collectors and scholars". José Luiz Pagliari from Brazil send in images of a square cornered version of the Spanish suited nonstandard deck and wrapper. Pascal Pette sent in images of his wrapper for the conventional version of the Spanish pattern, an invoice from 1946 and a picture of a 4th deck, with a French pattern.

So time to thank all the contributors, without them this page couldn't have been made, and to sum up the now known decks and show some cards of them here.
I'll start with the nonstandard Spanish suited deck here below.

 

Cards above, from the WOPC site.
Cards and wrapper below, from José Luiz Pagliari.

 

 

Some cards from the conventional Spanish patterned deck, as shown on the WOPC site.

 

Wrapper of the conventional Spanish deck above and picture of French patterned cards below, both from Pascal Pette.

According to the second invoice here below the decks from the Vitrail series could also be delivered with gold corners.

 

Left invoice (1946), found by Pascal Pette; right invoice (1948) found by Matthias Forster.

  

 

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