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• Suppliers of Modern and Antique Playing-Cards - dealers, importers and online shops supplying cards from a range of manufacturers.
• Playing-Card Manufacturers producing a range of standard, non-standard and custom cards.
• Special Playing-Cards - cards with special features such as extra suits or unusual designs.
• Makers and Suppliers of Custom Playing-Cards - produced to order with special backs or faces.
• Suppliers of Card Game Equipment - tables, card holders, shuffling machines, etc.
• Manufacturers and Suppliers Domino and Tile Games and Related Equipment
• Suppliers of Poker Equipment - tables, chips, clothing, etc. (separate page)

Suppliers of Modern and Antique Playing-Cards

R. Somerville (Playing Cards) has a comprehensive range of modern playing cards, including regional designs from all parts of the world, available by mail order.

The Alida web site has a good selection of Italian cards for sale.

TaroBear's Lair specialises in supplying Tarot, Tarock and Tarocchi playing-cards to players in North America

InterCol London deal in playing-cards, as well as books, maps, prints, currency and other ephemera.

Cartorama deal in antique playing-cards, paper and books.

unclesgames.com has a range of playing-cards, card games and card game equipment for sale on line.

The Game Preserve sells a range of Card Games as well as Board Games.

Spielkarten Welt sells playing-cards and card game books on line.

HG Images - dealer in playing-cards.

Troll and Toad specialises in trading card games (CCGs) but their Card Games section has a substantial range of proprietary (commercial) card games for sale.

The Card Kid has a range of cards and other equipment for various trading games (CCGs).

D.J.McAdam's Wooden Horse Books sells playing-cards and other games; also gaming literature (new and second hand).

Newt's Playing Card Superstore sells a range of American and Spanish playing-cards.

Wolfgang Kunze's Spielkarten Online sells a range of standard and non-standard second hand playing-cards for collectors.

Games et al sells playing-cards and other games to collectors.

Kling Magnetic Playing-Cards (USA). These cards have a thin metal film in the centre so that they cling to a magnetic playing surface. Useful for playing out of doors in a breeze.

The Outdoor Playing Card Company makes another system for outdoor use - the playing surface has an array of holes; cards have slots in the centre are held in place by pegs.

The Dutch company Roem Packaging and Paper Products sells a range of standard and custom playing-cards and equipment.

Parnell Playing Card Co have auctions of playing-cards, Faro equipment and antiques.

Playing Cards Only has a selection of modern and classic playing cards for all ages. The emphasis is on 52-card packs with novelty backs and faces, with some children's card games.

Playing Cards and More is a Florida-based online store selling standard Anglo-American playing cards and other game equipment.

The Card Games section of Directory Game consists mostly of links to suppliers of proprietary card games and trading card games (CCGs).

Playing-Card Manufacturers

Here are links to home pages of some playing-card manufacturers, producing a range of standard, non-standard and custom playing-cards.

• Piatnik (Austria)
• Heraclio Fournier, Vitoria (Spain)
• France Cartes
• Dal Negro (Italy)
• Carta Mundi (Belgium)
• Copag (Brazil)
• Trefl (Krakow, Poland)
• U.S. Games Systems
• Barajas y Naipes de México
• AG Müller (Switzerland)
• Spielkartenfabrik Altenburg (Germany)
• KEM Playing Cards (USA)
• United States Playing Card Co.
• OTK karty (Czech Republic)
• Eastcards (China)
• Ningbo Three A Group Co Ltd (China)
• Ningbo Asia Paper (China)
• Zhejiang GY Printing Co. (China)
• Canyang Feiyin Printing Co (China)
• Jiangsu Nanyang Printing Corporation (China)
• 54PCS Playing Card Show is a directory of 54 Chinese playing-card manufacturers.
• Peekay's Playing-Cards (India)
• Kuo Kau Paper Products (Taiwan)
• Death Playing Cards - Tobacco and Drug Education Playing Cards
• T.M. Playing Cards - from India
• Asha Industries - from India
• Brabus Printing & Paper Products (Hong Kong, China)

Special Playing-Cards

Cards with special features such as extra suits or unusual designs.

• Stardeck cards are like a standard pack with a fifth suit of stars plus two jokers - 67 cards in all.
• Empire Cards are a six suited deck of 78 cards. There are three red suits (hearts, diamonds and crowns) and three black suits (clubs, spades and anchors).
• Estate playing-cards - an Australian 60-card deck with 5 suits of 12 cards. The site includes a downloadable book with suggested variations of Canasta, Euchre and 500.
• Holdem or Foldem Cards: the face of each card of this deck has information on the odds of winning a hand of Texas Holdem when it is one of your two hole cards.
• Gemaco Cards (USA: Promotional cards and cards for the casino market)
• Blacksfactor (USA: Afrocentric Playing Cards)
• ZByte (USA: cards with suitmarks representing logical operators)
• The Novelty Card Co. produces cards with non-standard suit marks depicting golf clubs, garden spades, organic hearts and cut diamonds.
• MacGregor Historic Games produce reproductions of historic board, dice and card games.
• Old Bridge Playing Card Co.: high visibility playing cards, with a large number or letter replacing the traditional picture or pips.
• The Hungarian firm Civertan makes playing-cards with various non-standard designs - castles, steam locomotives, views of Budapest, etc.
• America's Most Wanted Playing-cards, with pictures of wanted criminals, are distributed by FacePrint Global Solutions
• From the Polaires web site you can buy special playing-cards painted by artists from the French Army.
• ProsperoArt.com produce Shakespeare Bridge decks featuring quotations and insults from the plays; also Rat Pack poker decks.
• Wild Party Games is an online shop whose products include several card games.
• Gabriel Castillo produces Chi Rho's Playing Cards with a Christian theme.

Makers and Suppliers of Custom Playing-Cards

Games and Print Services make standard playing-cards and will also produce custom designed cards to order.

Admagic.com suppies custom playing cards to order. You submit your own design for the backs or for the backs and faces.

TM CARDS DOT COM specialise in producing custom playing-cards to order. The customer can specify the face and back designs, the card size and materials, and the number of cards in the pack.

PFI Playing-cards, also known as Card-Press, is a US-based firm specialising in producing custom playing-cards (custom faces, backs and shapes), and can also supply other gaming equipment.

Based in India, Perfect Playing Cards can produce cards to your specification with standard or custom designed faces or backs.

Ivory Graphics is a UK supplier of custom playing-cards with personalised backs and/or faces.

Monogrammatiks imprint Bridge cards with your own custom design or message on the back.

At Your Playing Cards.com you can create your own back designs on line and order decks of standard playing-cards with these backs.

Makers and Suppliers of Card Game Equipment

Shawn Erikson's Game Store sells card and board games, dominoes and game equipment, including a range of Cribbage boards.

UK-based Farscape Games sells games of all sorts, including some playing-cards, cribbage boards, dominoes and mah-jong equipment.

Card shuffling machines are available:

• High Quality Manual Card Shuffler from Uncles Games
• Electric Card Shuffler from Uncles Games
• Las Vegas Card Shuffler from Dollys Mixtures
• Vasant D Mali's Auto Card Deal not only shuffles up to three decks of cards but also automatically deals hands of the desired size to up to 8 players.

The Italian company Del Fabbro makes folding card tables as well as other wooden furniture.

Las Vegas Poker & Gambling - online store for travel to Las Vegas, accommodation and all kinds of gambling books and equipment.

The Winning Hand and Card Holda are playing-card holders by Einstein Design.

Card Holders are available from Claire Publications.

The Lianqiang Plastics Hardware Electric Appliances Factory makes casino equipment including gaming tables, chips and slot machines.

Paragon Billiards supplies a range of Games Tables.

Domino and Tile Games and Related Equipment

Domino-Tables.com is a specialist manufacturer and supplier of domino tables.

Where the Winds Blow specialises in selling Mah Jong sets, books and accessories.