JOKER OF THE MONTH
Started in March 2004, there will be
a new "joker of the month" added to this xpo each month.
The shown joker
presents the best one that came to us in that month.
Each year we'll start with a clean sheet, but previous years will remain on xpo.
*** 2024 ***
JANUARY 2024 For the first time in months I couldn't restrain myself and bought some decks from the collection of the late Dudley Ollis, an English collector with a wonderful collection. A few parts of his collection have already been sold at Dominic Winter auction house and no doubt there's more to come. There was
one lot at the last auction that consisted of 6 decks made by the same
company and with the same title: the Royal National Patriotic playing
cards by William Kimberley from Birmingham. This deck, especially the
first three editions have always been somewhere, not very high, on my wish list, but they are not
seen on offer very often. Now that the opportunity was there to get all
but one of the different versions, I couldn't resist. |
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No
new decks this month, so no jokers to choose from. However, there's
always Miriam's collection to go through. Besides the folders with
sheets she had a vintage -maybe even antique now- American holder with a
joker figure and my cards collection embossed on the red outside cover.
There she had put her special vintage or antique single jokers. During a
meeting here last September three joker collectors had their way in this
holder and a lot of them were sold. But there were some left and I found
this one rather attractive. |
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MARCH 2024 Again
no
new decks this month, so gain I went to Miriam's collection and took out
a random holder. It was the "Women" one, so there were plenty of
scarcely dressed pin-up jokers, but enough more decent ones too. And this
modern joker is one of them. I've always liked the deck. Not only for the nice
Art Nouveau like designs by Otto Benz for the courts and the 3 different
jokers, but also for the chosen colours with nice gold and bronze tones and
delicate red accents. From the three jokers I chose this one, because it's the
only one on which the word joker has been woven into the design so delicately. |
The jokers of the month from..... |
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2004 | 2010 | 2016 | 2022 |
2005 | 2011 | 2017 | 2023 |
2006 | 2012 | 2018 | |
2007 | 2013 | 2019 | |
2008 | 2014 | 2020 | |
2009 | 2015 | 2021 | |
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