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Added - 10th November
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Some early Worshipful Company Decks nearly all Tax Wrapped
Added - 30th October
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c1795 - An Antidote to Idleness
Wallis & Newbery
c1880 - Zodiac/Months Collecting Game
1823 - Every Man to his Station
E Wallis
c1875 - The Characters Of Charles Dickens – Jaques & Son
Added - 6th October
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1855 - The Family Coach - W Spooner
This game consists of 45 cards, 15 of the 45 cards are hand-colored picture cards.
Nine of them make up the picture of the coach and the others are portraits of the personalities, including one showing Sambo, the servant.
The other cards explain the story and control the forfeits and playing pattern.
It is in both Yale and The Morgan Library & Museum………
c1820 - “Pictorial illustration’s of English History from the Landing of Caesar to the Death of Richard III”
E C Edlin
Edward Edlin was listed as a Turner. He was at 34 New Bond Street – 1808, and at 37 New Bond Street – 1809 to 1847
1838 he changed his description to Turner and Toy Manufacturer-shop – Juvenile Library succeeded by Thomas Edlin in 1844
Interestingly, this sheet, up to William IV, was issued in a wooden box made by E Wallis c1830…….
Added - 6th October
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c1820s - The Scripture Alphabet :
embelish'd with 26 vignettes
R Miller, St Paul’s
This scripture alphabet embelish’d with 26 vignettes, was published in London “Publish by R Miller, 24 Old Fish Street – St Paul’s
It consists of 26 engraved alphabet cards, each with a hand-coloured vignette scene and a four-line verse explanation, from the Bible….
1809 - The Jubilee - J. Harris
This game was produced to celebrate George III’s fifty years as king.
The board records the major events, episodes and geographic and scientific discoveries of his rule. The 150 squares begin at the outer edge, with the proclamation of George’s reign, progressing through upheavals such as the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars,…
Added - 26th September
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Four 19th Century Mother of Pearl Whist Boxes
Added - 23trd September
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Cartes Comiques complete deck of Dondorf’s 1860 Playing Cards
Added -18 th September
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Mother of Pearl Gaming Counter made for King Charles IV of Spain c1800
Added - 15th September
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Wood-block & stencil by Ken Lodge and Paul Bostock
French Playing Cards with Secondary Use - interesting references
to Captain Cook
Wood-block & stencil by Ken Lodge and Paul Bostock is a comprehensive survey of English card-makers from 1761-1905 with a focus on the wood-block period.
The block analysis and the stencil analysis cover the period 1790-1830; the former is the presentation of distinctive features of the outlines of each court figure
Added - 29th August
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Playing Cards by Hardy & Sons c1830/1835
c1812 Playing Cards by Josiah Stone with George III Duty Ace.
Added - 27th August
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1838 Maps on Playing Cards
Added - 17th August
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Complete deck of 1817 Baron Louis Atthalin’s Transformation playing cards
This is the first French Transformation Playing Cards - somewhat unique as it has contemporary manuscript annotations on the reverse to describe the scene depicted by each card.
Added - 6th July
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“Jeanne L’Hachette”
Transformation Playing Cards, c.1860
Maximilian Frommann
“Jeanne Hachette”
Transformation Playing Cards, c1865
Added - 29th June
1889 KINNEY TOBACCO TRANSFORMATION INSERT CARDS 53/53
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Added - 8th of April '22
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Added - 12thMarch
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SINGLE TRANSLUCENT
EROTIC PLAYING CARDS
YOU HAVE TO BE 18+ TO VIEW
Added - 2nd March
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C1785 A complete set of Piquet Playing Cards by Gibson & Gisborne
Added - 8th February '22
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Chi Chi Pai Playing Cards c1890
A Brick of Ten Packs
Added - 4th February
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Charles Hodges 1828
New Geographical Cards
Added - 26th November
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Four well illustrated books on
playing cards and games
At 'giveaway' prices
Added - 22nd August
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1818 / 1819 Beatrice, or the Fracas Transformation Playing Cards
Plates bound in a book
Added - 20th June
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A Unique Group of c1825 Gaming Counters depicting the
Shields and Coronets of Piers
with the title and family motto on the reverse
Added - 1st June
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Card Makers Bond – Henry Robert Sabine – Dated 11th June 1839
A unique Playing Card item
Added 4th April
Hunt & Sons c1820 Playing Cards - in near MINT condition
Brooks's Club Framed Georgian Gaming Counters
Added - 8th October
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1865 Cavalier Playing Cards - Boxed set of 52
Added - 1st October
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1765 by Rowley & Co Playing Cards
Added - 21st September
HARIFUDA - set of six cards by Oishi Tengudo
HIKIFUDA - set of six cards by Oishi Tengudo
J Maillard & Filhos Portuguese Playing Cards c 1885
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Trumps “Smoke and Chew Long Cut” Tobacco Insert Playing Cards
Uploaded 4th August
Six New Crib Boards added to the Website
Various Materials and some attractive boards/box from Charles Goodall
1822 - The Majestic Game of the Asiatic Ostrich,
uniting the Double object of imparting
Knowledge
with Diversion to the mind of Youth
The game offers a lesson in Ranks and Dignities of the British Peerage, Clergy and Military; it was published in 1822.
The rules book (not present) includes a dedication to the future Queen Victoria
This game is beautiful hand-coloured engraved, mounted in nine sections on linen, showing an Ostrich, with twenty egg-shaped portraits of dignitaries, clergy and men of military importance
The game was printed by William Darton – Map Seller – 58 Holburn Hill London, and he made the dedication to the future Queen Victoria.
There are only two copies listed in museums.
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UNSUN KARUTA Playing Cards – A Japanese Game
Kabufuda, literally meaning “Kabu cards”
Oishi Tengudo Japanese Playing Cards Game
THE SQUARE AND COMPASSES TAROT DECK
Nintendo “Laser Clay” Playing Cards, c.1973
MANY NEW ITEMS ADDED TO OUR GAMES SITE
Printed and Manuscript Games and Puzzles
A range of nice copies of Penny Placks
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