PINS 
PINS
We don't even remember which one was the first, but whenever we found a pin with a playing card design, we couldn't resist taking it along. Over the years this subcollection has grown to more than 100 different ones and has earned its own spot in our home. Most of them come from French fleamarkets, some from Ebay, but hardly any were found here in Holland. Here collecting pins was a popular hobby in the early 1960's. There are no doubt still collectors of pins, but it has never been as popular again. In France however, the pin was re-discovered in the 1980's as a popular collectible.
They usually come as single pieces, but some series have been published too. It was fun completing some of these series by finding a single pin each time.
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A French set with revolutionary symbols, like the cascet and the guillotine, published in 1993 for the French Bicentennial. |
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A series of
French advertising pins |
The
French TAPIS VERT series of 4 + one special "golden" pin.
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3 pins from the american Alice in Wonderland series. |
A
"cool" Las Vegas KING
and a series of 4 HARD ROCK HOTEL QUEENS +
JOKER
which brings us to.........
JOKERS
We'll start with some factory jokers......
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Above: the Italian Modiano joker. Left: the Carta Mundi joker. Right: a Fournier joker and a French one. |
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Sometimes they come as a hand.... |
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All the pins above have the modern push-on closure. Here below some old-fashioned pins from the 1960's:
Published as a whole deck (52 + joker!) to
promote the Ernst Casimir cigar
brand
The cards show a Dutch pattern and
joker by the Belgian cardmaker Van Genechten.
with
or within a card!