International Playing-Card Society
Encyclopedia
The International Playing-Card Society (IPCS) is a non-profit
organisation for those interested in playing card
s, their
design, and their history. While many of its members are
collectors of playing cards, they also include historians of
playing cards and their uses, like card game
and its history.
The IPCS is based in the United Kingdom, but has members worldwide,
especially in Europe.
It produces a quarterly journal The Playing-Card
, which
publishes articles mostly in English but also in French, German,
Italian and Spanish. It also publishes occasional monographs
called "IPCS Papers", and issues pattern sheets which systematize
types of standard playing-card design.
journal titled The Journal of the Playing-Card Society. In May
1980 the names of the society and the journal were changed, becoming
The International Playing-Card Society and The Playing-Card.
A newsletter, which became known as Playing-Card World, was
formerly published as a supplement to the journal, running for 80
issues from 1975 to 1995.
organisation for those interested in playing card
Playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games...
s, their
design, and their history. While many of its members are
collectors of playing cards, they also include historians of
playing cards and their uses, like card game
Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games...
and its history.
The IPCS is based in the United Kingdom, but has members worldwide,
especially in Europe.
It produces a quarterly journal The Playing-Card
The Playing-Card
The Playing-Card is a quarterly publication, publishing scholarly articles covering all aspects of playing cards and of the games played with them, produced by the International Playing-Card Society....
, which
publishes articles mostly in English but also in French, German,
Italian and Spanish. It also publishes occasional monographs
called "IPCS Papers", and issues pattern sheets which systematize
types of standard playing-card design.
History
The IPCS was founded in 1972, as The Playing-Card Society, with ajournal titled The Journal of the Playing-Card Society. In May
1980 the names of the society and the journal were changed, becoming
The International Playing-Card Society and The Playing-Card.
A newsletter, which became known as Playing-Card World, was
formerly published as a supplement to the journal, running for 80
issues from 1975 to 1995.
Notable members
Notable members of the Society include- Michael DummettMichael DummettSir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett FBA D.Litt is a British philosopher. He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford...
, philosopher, and IPCS founder member and past president; - Sylvia Mann, collector of and writer on playing-cards, and IPCS founder member and its first president.