EndersGame mentioned these cards a few months ago in this post viewtopic.php?f=81&t=14362&p=163582&hil ... b4#p163582 but there has not been a proper post about them, from what I could find, so I thought I’d make one.
These were released in 1957. Artists from around the world were invited to submit designs for new court cards to celebrate Thomas de la Rue’s 125th anniversary. Jean Picart le Doux had the winning submission.
Very nice! I've wanted to pick up a Thomas de la Rue deck for a while. De La Rue company is now a secure documents printer; they print banknotes for countries around the world, so they're easily familiar to notaphilists.
I have a set of these coming from Sherman, they are nice decks for sure!
As you can see from Matt's pictures, he has two of these: One opened set and one in mint condition which is something I have not seen before.
Left my heart inSIERRA MADRE
"Finding it... that's not the hard part. It's letting go."
"One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey." -Moominmamma
I dream of a world where wars are fought only by having dance offs. I also dream that a Finnish playing card designer would exist. The former seems more likely to happend.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a penguin. Have you ever met a sad person with a penguin?
Are lobsters mermaids to scorpions?
"I did not hit her, it's not true, it's bullsh*t, I did not hit her, I did naaaht! Oh hai Mark!"
