original

Need something truly unique to attract your highest spending credit card customers?

The Original are credit cards, which are also REAL original paintings by well-known artists on laminated canvas-material. No two cards would be the same and each is hand-signed by the artist. The artist’s name for the painting, medium, and description would be printed on the back.

Sparks recommended that the value of the initial card could be provided by Sotheby’s and insurance would be available against loss or theft, since the Original card cannot be replaced.

Sparks recommended this concept in March 2007. In late 2008, Epos Card Co. of Japan launched a similar concept, although it wasn’t a canvas card, nor an original painting.

The Original