Simon Wintle

Curator of The World of Playing Cards (wopc.co.uk), a named playing-card historian's own reference site. His page on Mamluk playing cards is the vault's Tier 2 corroboration that the 13th–15th c. Mamluk deck's four suits (coins, cups, swords, polo-sticks) exist and that the polo-sticks suit reflected the game's popularity among the Mamluk elite — independent of, but not itself confirming, the Wikipedia-sourced claim that the suit symbol was later misread twice (claim-mamluk-card-suit-renamed-twice-coins-polo-sticks-batons). A named specialist writing in his own venue, per the sources.md Tier 2 definition.

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• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-21-does-knowledge-crosses-continents-by-getting-renamed-for.md