Yasha Beresiner - InterCol London - Antique and collectable playing cards, books, prints and maps. Masonic Artefacts
We have over 3000 decks of cards listed and upload new ones almost daily. This section, in addition to Books on Playing Cards, includes Tarot and Fortune Telling Cards, Card Games and Magic Cards, Single Cards of which the Secondary Use of Playing Cards are of particular interest, and Uncut Sheets. Playing Card Ephemera is in the Ephemera section.We also offer a large number of decks of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards which are not normally commercially available.
Past Articles by Yasha
Gilbert & Sullivan – Musical Masons
Of the 14 Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas only one has allusions to Freemasonry, an amusing parody in the opening act to The Grand Duke, first [...] more »
Archbishop Fisher – A Godly man and a Brother
The designation of Archbishop of Canterbury is an ancient office tracing its origins to St Augustine in 597AD. He is the head of the Church of En[...] more »
Laurence Dermott: Extraordinary Man and Mason
Transcript of the lecture first delivered on the occasion of the 250th Anniversary Meeting of the Enoch Lodge No XI UGLE WM, R W Pro Grand Master[...] more »
Dr Robert Crucefix – A Man And A Mason To Be Proud Of
Written version of the talk delivered to the Burlington Lodge on the 250th anniversary celebrations on Tuesday 05 December 2006. (I am indebted t[...] more »
Winston Churchill – A Famous Man and a Freemason
There are great freemasons and there are great men who were freemasons. Winston Spencer-Churchill belonged to the latter category. As Freemasons[...] more »
Malcolm and Donald Campbell: Father & Son Duo
Sir Malcolm Campbell and his son Donald will forever be venerated as world famous speed record holders. They shared those characteristics manifes[...] more »
Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie A man of Faith and a Freemason
The Very Reverend Sir Israel Brodie, KBE., BA., BLitt., (1895-1975) Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of the British Commonwealth of [...] more »
David Garrick – definitely not a freemason
David Garrick (1717-1779). - born in Hereford, England of Huguenot descent Garrick came to London in the 1730s accompanying his friend Samuel J[...] more »
Famous Freemasons, Elias Ashmole’s initiation
There are many questions in the long history of Freemasonry which perturb scholars and to which there really are no definite answers. For instanc[...] more »
Thomas Barnardo: ‘The Doctor’ and Freemason
INTRODUCTION Dr Thomas John Barnardo (1845-1905), nicknamed ‘The Doctor’, is recognized as a leading reformer of the 19th century on a par wi[...] more »
Arthur Conan Doyle – Spiritualist and Freemason
The name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is synonymous with Sherlock Holmes. Yet during Sir Arthur’s long and distinguished life his interests, and h[...] more »
15th Century Flemish Deck of Cards
Sold at the Sotheby London auction in December 1983. Contemporary report by Yasha Beresiner. I have no hesitation at all in my mind as to the mos[...] more »
Masonic Playing Cards by Yasha Beresiner
Playing cards have been around for centuries. The earliest report, in Florence at the end of the 14th Century, is an edict banning their use bec[...] more »
Aspects of the playing card collection of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards
Illustrated talk presented at the International Playing Card Convention (IPCS) London September 1995, by Yasha Beresiner The Worshipful Company [...] more »
The Fournier Card Museum Vitoria, Spain
Report by Yasha Beresiner on the visit to the Museo ‘Fournier’ de Naipes de Alava by delegates to the IPCS and Asescoin Annual Conven[...] more »