Amusedbyjokersami.com Website Review

Playing Card Joker Collecting, It is not who I am, it is one of the things I do. This blog, another thing that I do, displays much of my playing card joker collection. My joker card collection contains around 3000 different jokers which is a fraction of the worlds' largest collections. My current projects are improved photography and organization. Truly. Amused by the jokers I am. It's that special time of the year so I'm making an inventory of my forty four Christmas jokers. These first jokers are typical of a set of about twenty jokers that I have that use art work from two influential Twentieth Century US artists: one widely known and one equally influential but largely unknown. feature Saturday Evening Post cover illustrations of Christmas themes on the front and back. Curtis was the publisher of many magazines in the 1900s including the Saturday Evening Post. Curtis is now largely a licensing company with Normal Rockwell's images as their primary Intermingled with Norman Rockwell imagery is artwork by the less famous but as influential artist called Haddon Sundblom as human (not supernatural or too Sainty), jolly, and tubby.  These images are on the  back of the cards in color and repeated in black and white on the joker.  BTW, thanks to Jan Walls of Australia on the FB Joker Collecting Group for being the first to tell me about Haddon to Clement Clarke Moore's 1822 poem A Visit From St. Nicholas (commonly called 'Twas the Night Before Christmas). Moore's description of St. Nick led to an image of Santa that was warm, friendly, pleasantly plump and human. For the next 33 years, Sundblom painted portraits of Santa that helped to create the modern image of Santa – an interpretation that today lives on in the minds of people A Russian St Nicolas! Notice how in this tradition, he looks very different than the modern American (and now global) Santa Claus. The next two  are from a Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer deck published by Aquarius products