Your Favorite Playing Card Decks

[Eugenie]

No luck with that Russian deck, the quality of print was horrendous. Eh well. Not even a fake, just normal Soviet quality. 

[Raggydoll]

4 hours ago, Eugenie said:

No luck with that Russian deck, the quality of print was horrendous. Eh well. Not even a fake, just normal Soviet quality. 

That is too bad. Today as I was looking through the british museum, I found two antique russian decks that I thought you might be interested in. I will link them here:

 

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1904-0511-40-1-52

 

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1896-0501-810

 

And this is what came up when I searched their russian category. Its not much but maybe you will find something of interest: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?keyword=playing-card&school_style=Russian&view=grid&sort=object_name__asc&page=1

[akiva]

4 hours ago, Eugenie said:

No luck with that Russian deck, the quality of print was horrendous. Eh well. Not even a fake, just normal Soviet quality. 

Piatnik do some Russian decks, they're on amazon and ebay 😊 

[Eugenie]

@Raggydoll, @akiva, thank you very much for helping me find a deck! I will give this issue a bit of rest for now, two decks are coming in the post, anyway, so no need to order more. I was mostly looking at the Russian decks because there are plenty of then knocking around since the time we were part of the Soviet Union, and they are very cheap. Otherwise, I am a bit bored with them. It is interesting, however, that Soviet decks were inherited from the pre-Revolution times and didn't reflect Communist culture at all. All of the decks I have used are from the old Russia, 19th century. 

[Eugenie]

 

This is just to marvel: a beautiful linoprinted deck from Etsy.

 

[Laura Borealis]

Oh, that's beautiful. Thank you for sharing it!

 

[Eugenie]

Just now, Laura Borealis said:

Oh, that's beautiful. Thank you for sharing it!

 

You're most welcome! It is a stunning deck for sure. 

[Morwenna]

So many gorgeous decks. I still don't know how to load pictures. 

I do have some of the ones pictured here though: most of the Stargazer series, the Celtic myth one, a couple French decks. But it's still hard to pick favorites. 

[Scandinavianhermit]

On 12/11/2019 at 8:34 AM, Raggydoll said:

I would like to see everyone’s favorite decks, and if you feel like featuring your whole collection - go for it 😀!!

Well, you know how Öberg's and Piatnik's Swedish Pattern decks looks like. 

[Raggydoll]

7 hours ago, Scandinavianhermit said:

Well, you know how Öberg's and Piatnik's Swedish Pattern decks looks like. 

I do! How fun to hear that these are your very favorites! Love that 😊

[Scandinavianhermit]

6 hours ago, Raggydoll said:

I do! How fun to hear that these are your very favorites! Love that 😊

Familiarity since childhood. My aunt had used Öberg's deck in the past, but switched to Piatnik's when that became available, while an elderly lady in the village stuck to Öberg's. 

 

The World of Playing Cards shows a printing of Piatnik's Swedish Pattern deck from 1997, but I know for sure, that it existed already in the early 1980s, perhaps earlier: https://www.wopc.co.uk/sweden/standard-swedish-pattern