We were contacted by  the publiisher of this book to get permission to use our 16th century Frech cards as the featured deck in it. Love and Destiny: Discover the Secret Language of Relationships In return for using our cards they're putting a full color full page ad for us in the back of the book.The book is supposed to come out next month.

I spent some time today updating some of the info on our website about the history of playing card printing. I found a couple 16th century illustrations of a man engraving wood blocks for printing cards, and another stenciling the colors.

Limited Edition run of only 5 sets http://historicgames.com/wood.html

A little preview of the pewter game pieces for the limited edition oak Morris games we are working on and will be available for the Christmas season.

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We just finished a limited run of 25 wooden hand-colored Pentalpha games featuring my original Celtic pentagram design. I originally created it as a solitaire/puzzle game that was played on a five-pointed star, but many of our original boards were bought for altar pieces for our Pagan/Wiccan customers. (Solstice is coming...  )

 See our Wood Game Boards page http://historicgames.com/wood.html for more information.