8 galleries of playing card jokers, matchcovers, postcards, lapel pins, and info about collecting supplies.

Quickly browse through images in the following galleries:

• paper collectibles - newly expanded gallery showing a mid-century pinup calendar, rock and roll graphics from the 70s and 80s, rubber stamps, stationery for telegrams and transportation collectibles.

• card gallery - Features playing card joker pics and the history of playing cards.  Also see Le Petit Lenormand fortune telling cards, and artistic phone cards.

• matchcover gallery - Exhibit of pin-up covers; plus contours and feature packs, matchcover topics and 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. Information about postcard collecting supplies.

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

• artwork gallery - mail art, illustration, found objects, collage and original art.

• the further adventures of dot & pat. Dot is the curator of a growing archive of patterns for artists, designers and general reference.

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

playing card & jokers

postcards ephemera

pins & buttons

 artwork gallery
 paisley grafitti

paper collectibles

dot & pat image gallery

 site map: even more collections

 paper collectibles: pin-up calendars

 postcard gallery: Art Nouveau postcards

 latest exhibit: pin-up matchcovers

 exhibit: gag matchcovers

 exhibit: rubber stamps from Japan

 collecting information and more:

• matchcover collecting topics
• online joker collections
• mail art from found objects
• large feature matchcovers
• «paisley graffiti»
• «dancing jokers»

updated: 2 August 2010

established: 10 March 2002