Looking for some hi-res scans of cards from the 14th-16th centuries

[EndersGame]

A filmmaker producing something about playing cards is looking for some hi-res scans of playing cards from the 14th-16th centuries.

Does anyone have any suggestions about where to look, or any contacts you can suggest him reaching out to?

[Don Boyer]

A filmmaker producing something about playing cards is looking for some hi-res scans of playing cards from the 14th-16th centuries.

Does anyone have any suggestions about where to look, or any contacts you can suggest him reaching out to?

You'd probably get the strongest response by taking out an ad in one or both of the 52 Plus Joker club magazines.

Clear the Decks is your best shot as it focuses more on antique cards than modern, but it's a print magazine that only comes out quarterly.

Card Culture comes out monthly and is all-digital, but some of the older members (i.e. the ones more likely to have really old antiques cards in their collection) don't read it because it's digital.  I've even heard of a few who print it out - back when I was the editor, it's why we kept the page format to roughly correspond to 8.5x11"!

Failing that, you can try some of the universities that have large collections.  I know Columbia in upper Manhattan has the Field Collection - the club organized a visit there a while back, perhaps about 7 years ago.

There's also cards in the collection owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art - a few years back they displayed the oldest known example of a complete deck of playing cards at the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.


Good luck to you.

[NCC1888]

You might try Daniel Dragojevich at World Class Playing Cards.
http://worldclassplayingcards.com/