Collecting Collections: Vintage Playing Cards

Contributor post by Lisa Congdon






As someone who collects alot of stuff, I am often asked what “new” favorite collection I have. Andit just so happens that I have a new passion right now: vintage playing cards.Some of my current favorites in my collection are pictured above. 





Photo by Valeriana Solaris


Unlike many collectors of vintage playing cards, I’m lessinterested in acquiring a full, complete deck. Instead, I’m happy to find justone single card! In fact, I love finding lone, abandoned cards that I can addto my collection of misfit vintage playing cards (not that I won’t take acomplete deck when I can find one at the right price!).



I am drawn to playing cards for many reasons: the beautifulartwork, the worn, vintage look, the typography, the odd sizes. It turns out Iam not the only one who loves vintage playing cards! There is even a websitecalled Antique Playing Card Source!



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I am mostly drawn to really old playing cards (pre-1930),but I also love decks from the mid-century, like this modern deck via Words& Eggs:





Interested in collecting vintage playing cards? I like thisinformative little article by Collector’s Weekly for more information. 





I’m off to hunt more vintage playing cards. What is your latest collecting obsession?



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Lisa Congdon
Artist, illustrator
Author, A Collection a Day
Website: www.lisacongdon.com
Blog: www.lisacongdon.com/blog
A Collection a Day: www.collectionaday.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lisacongdon

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Collecting Collections

Contributor post by Lisa Congdon

I'm back this month with an up close look at some of my kitchen collectables. As I mention in my book, A Collection a Day , my favorite collection is probably my mid-century kitchenware -- most of which is Scandinavian and Japanese. I love the colors, the designs, the simplicity.



photo by Philip Maisel
I started collecting kitchenware about 10 years ago. It began with a Catherineholm piece I found at an antique mall, and it grew from there. Much of my vintage kitchenware I don't use -- it's either too fragile or too precious to me, so I display it in my kitchen instead.




photos by Jen Siska for Dwell Magazine

Recently I did an interview with Drew of Kitsch Cafe about collecting. In that interview I talk a little bit there about taking good care of your collections, which in many cases means not using them (or at least not using them for every day use) to protect them from wear and tear.

But I do use several of my kitchen collectables! In fact, you can see many vintage things in my kitchen thrown in with every day spoons, pots and bowls.









When it comes to your collections, how do you make decisions about what to use versus what to display? Tell us what you think.




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Lisa Congdon is an artist, author and prolific collector of old and unusual things, including bits of nature, and surrounds herself with these things in her home and studio. In 2010 she chronicled all of her collections in her Collection A Day 2010 Project. That project is now a book, published in March 2011.

Site: www.lisacongdon.com
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