The verso of each playing card depicts an image by an artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Emmet Williams writes in the forward, "Over the years, the artist [Ann Noel] accumulated a "vocabulary" of images printed from the inked ends of thousands of [wine] corks. The prints of the cork ends resemble wood cut prints in texture. For each print in the present selection, four enlarged cork images in different colours were superimposed over one another into a colored. background." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.