Take a look at your old playing cards and you'll see a ... England started taxing printing card sales in 1765 and used custom ace stamps (though they didn't look much like an ace to begin with ...

But another old deck may contain ... Early European playing cards were not uniform. As cards traveled north from Spain and Italy, European countries developed custom suits and decks with varied ...

They are cultural imprints that reveal popular custom. The birthplace of ordinary playing cards is shrouded in obscurity and conjecture, but—like gunpowder or tea or porcelain—they almost ...

Call it a card player's dream. A complete set of 52 silver playing cards gilded in gold and dating back 400 years has been discovered. Created in Germany around 1616, the cards were engraved by a ...

Flagship game: Junior hanafuda, a centuries-old style of Japanese playing cards reimagined with a punchy, modern design. For Louie Mantia, it all started with an emoji. An icon designer by trade ...