Jokers: Performers with Cards

These jokers feature showman who are using playing cards as a primary prop.  They seem to mostly be from Europe, Belgium, and The Netherlands.  There are other articles about performing without playing cards (there's a complete different section if they are dancing or if they are juggling with cards or juggling without cards).

The joker collection is primarily organized by visual themes. This section will start with a few examples of Performers with Cards, then there is a listing of all the jokers in this section. There are thirteen pages with nine featuring jokers with performers using cards or when the performer is dressed as a card.

I particularly like this next joker with a king with marionettes of a king on his knee before the queen. It's from 1910 and is known as the Bee French Whist #68 NY65. P63. 

Here are the pages of jokers with performers with playing cards. 

In this first page
R1C1 (Row 1, Column 1) is the joker from De Lands Automatic Playing Cards. N2. S.S. Adams. Asbury Park, NJ. 1918. P301

R1C2: 

Here are some related types jokers that you really must see. So quick through quickly and continue your tour!

1. Dancing with or without jesters wands 
2. Performing with cards or without cards  
3. Juggling things 

   

   Juggling Jesters

4. Juggling cards  
1. Scatterman variations
5. Sitting - Forward vs Sideways
6. Standing Jesters 
7. Head Shots or Busts. On a stick, heads, hands no wand, hand with a wand  
8. Fighters! ie Jokers with swords, etc
9. Clown Jokers