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The "Darling" deck was printed and published by the Bielefelder Spielkartenfabrik from Germany in 1957 as "Darling Pin-Ups". The illustrations were done by Klaus Villiger. The deck consists of 52 cards and 3 jokers. It comes in a two-piece plastic box with the title printed on the top part. The deck also exists in a 32 card version. But there are some variations too, as you will see here below.

 

CLICK THE ACES ABOVE TO SEE THE NUMBERCARDS PER SUIT

In the first variation the Ace of Spades has a new design and the designs of the Aces of Hearts and Clubs have been exchanged.

The "Joker" logo of the manufacturer is now found on the Ace of Hearts. 

The first variation has two court cards of which the design has been changed: the Queens of Clubs and Diamonds.

Here below the blue backdesign of this variation. The green back belongs to the original deck.
The box is the same for both editions. 

   

The jokers in all decks have the same designs, but in the 2nd variation an advertising text has been placed on each card: "Pikant wie Picon"

This advertising deck for the French Picon brand has the same designs on each card as the original deck. Here below some of the cards.

If you want to see this page in connection with an Indian copy, see our "Variations" Xpo.