May 7

Another day…… another deck. Today's lockdown deck comes from Sweden. The deck was printed in chromolithography by Granbergs AB from Stockholm and was published from 1924 to 1937. It's known as Hjortzbergs Spelkort, after it's designer professor Olle Hjortzberg. His signature (OH) is on all courts and the joker. Several versions are known, but there are two main different versions: with or without. Here's a regular sized version "without", but we also have a patience version "with". The with or without concerns the jacks only and consists of..... flowers. Our patience version can be seen as Deck of the Month September 2011 and the apparently different first edition became our Deck of the Month October 2026.

COMMENT:
Laherte Guerra: You remind me of some single/swap jacks from the pack printed by F.X. Schmid for John T. Essberger that were once listed on eBay as "gay-themed playing cards"...