Archive
Archive
These are the magazine's contents: every section with a short description, so you can find the topic you need in a couple of seconds. Below we explain what happened to the domain's old addresses and why pages of the former website no longer open here. If you arrived through an old link, start with the list of sections to find your way around.
The domain has changed its content entirely: only the name remains from the former website, and everything else we write anew.
Magazine sections
- Home: about the magazine, five steps for examining an old deck and answers to readers' questions.
- Articles: the six themes of the magazine and the catalogue of articles written for English-speaking readers.
- History: the journey of the playing card from Tang-dynasty China to the "Atlas" deck, and how the card became a picture.
- People and makers: designer, engraver, printer, card maker, collector and curator, plus tips on not falling for myths.
- Collections: three reading routes on court cards and kings, card backs and patterns, small decks and patience.
- Events: print exhibitions, collectors' fairs, talks and workshops, and how to check announcements.
- Analysis: how the picture of a king is built and how to tell the printing technique from the print.
- Archive: these contents and an explanation of what happened to the domain's old addresses.
About the domain's old addresses
This domain used to host a website whose pages concerned gambling. The Startpoker1 magazine is not connected with it, does not continue its work and does not support such games.
That is why the old pages are not being restored: they have been removed, and at their addresses the server reports that the content no longer exists. We deliberately do not redirect those links to magazine articles, so as not to give the impression that the former website lives on in a new form.
The new sections of the magazine were written from scratch and are devoted solely to playing cards as objects of art, printing and design. They contain no material from the former website.
If you arrived here through an old link, start with the list of sections above or with the magazine's home page.
Read next
- Home
A magazine about the playing card as a picture: the history of decks, suits and court cards, printmaking and collecting.
- Articles
Six themes of the magazine, from the first decks to caring for old cards, plus the catalogue of English-language articles.
- History
The journey of the playing card from Tang-dynasty China to the European suits and the Russian "Atlas" deck of 1862.
- Collections
Three reading routes: court cards and kings, card backs and patterns, small decks and patience.
- Events
Print exhibitions, collectors' fairs, museum talks and printmaking workshops, and how to check an announcement.
Sources
- Startpoker1 magazine articles
- Encyclopaedic sources on the history of playing cards
Dates and facts about the history of playing cards come from open encyclopaedic and museum sources; where historians disagree, we try to say so. Please check the times, venues and admission arrangements for exhibitions and lectures with the organisers.