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Title: Mamluk Playing Cards
Post by: variantventures on July 12, 2016, 01:34:37 PM

I am not involved in this project (I am, in fact, working on my own, competing project) and I don't know what the exact plan and costs will be but I thought you might want to know about this.  This person is producing a beautiful reproduction of the Topkapi deck of playing cards for release sometime in 2016.  If you are interested in Islamic playing cards you will at least want to take a look at this website:
http://mamluk.spiorad.net/index.htm

Title: Re: Mamluk Playing Cards
Post by: variantventures on July 13, 2016, 12:52:27 PM

Made contact with the artist.  His production schedule has slipped and he's looking at early 2017 for production.  He plans to make the cards full size (which is approximately 4in wide by 10in high) and expects the price to be 50+ Euros per deck.  Plus shipping from Europe.

I plan to organize a bulk purchase for folks in the US in order to cut back on shipping costs.  If you want to get in on it let me know and I'll contact you when he announces he's ready to take orders.