cards, matchcovers and paper collecting | dotpattern

digital museum of collecting

8 galleries of playing cards, jokers, matchcovers, postcards and supplies.

Quickly browse through images in the following galleries:

card gallery - Features playing card joker pics and the history of playing cards. A sample of Le Petit Lenormand fortune telling cards and a collection of phone cards. Trading card supplies: 9 pocket pages.

matchcover gallery - New exhibit of pin-up covers; plus contour and feature packs, collecting topics & information about collecting. Matchcover storage pages.

postcard gallery - Recent addition of French Art Nouveau and romantic postcards, and a continuing exhibit of tacky motels and naugahyde restaurants (samples).
Postcard collecting supplies.

pins & button gallery - rock 'n roll pins and buttons from the eighties, plus: badges, push-pins, lapel pins, safety pins, buttons, subway tokens.

artwerk gallery - mail art, illustration, rubber stamps, cartoons, found objects, collage and original art.

photo gallery - Visit the beta version of the gallery with sculpture by Andy Goldsworthy at SUNY, Purchase, NY.

the further adventures of dot & pat. Dot is the curator of a growing archive of patterns for design and reference.

Postcard and stamp both created by Alfons Mucha for his home country of Czechoslovakia. Visit the postcard gallery for art nouveau postcards.

Enjoy your visit to the digital museum of collecting. New exhibits appear weekly so check back again for gallery openings and more information for collectors.