Napoleonic pin-up playing cards.
More Polish delights arrive at Fighting 15s.
Fighting 15s now has in stock the fabulous Napoleonic pin-up girls playing cards illustrated by Polish artist Bartek Drejewicz.
Published by Polish lingerie store Intimo, this deck of playing cards features pin-up girls in Napoleonic uniforms. The deck is definitely themed as traditional pin-ups, not “glamour”, with bare midriffs and plunging necklines the limit of any risque exposure.
Each suite is themed as follows: Clubs - Austrians and Prussians; Diamonds - French; Hearts - Polish and Confederation of the Rhine; Spades - British, Russians and Spanish. All cards in the decks are illustrated in full colour, and the illustrations on the standard 52 cards are unique. Four identically illustrated jokers are also included. Illustrations are identical in the blue and red decks; the only difference is the colour of the backs of the cards.
The cards use continental notation for the court cards - K for king, D for queen (dame) and J for jack – which should cause minimal confusion if the decks are used, for example, to drive a game’s card-driven initiative system.
Decks are priced at £9.50 each including VAT, or £18.00 including VAT for a pair of different-backed decks.
4 thoughts on “Napoleonic Playing Cards”
19/04/2015 at 20:36
What kind of sad little man would you have to be?
28/04/2015 at 14:06
The cards do not feature sad little men, so I regret I must disappoint you.
28/04/2015 at 14:07
You sold out of them didn’t you Ian?
28/04/2015 at 18:32
Yup, sold out at Salute. Mix of buyers, including women. I have orders for more, and am expecting new stock by early next week. The cards do involve me ordering from a lingerie shop, which doesn’t particularly phase me, 🙂 and buying them helps support a talented Polish artist, who is delighted that I sold my initial 48 decks so quickly.