Danbrit
Danbrit playing cards by Alf Cooke, 1930s
Danbrit playing cards by Alf Cooke, 1936
Above: seven cards and the Joker from pack made for export to Denmark. Manufactured by The Universal Playing Card Co. Ltd, Leeds, c.1936, and issued as 'Danbrit' No.215. Indices are A, K, D and Kn with small icons representing the respective ranks of K & Kn.
Note from Peter Burnett
While I was cataloguing the Danbrit pack in the Bodleian Library I found your useful Danbrit article on WOPC and saw that you only displayed 7 court cards. Please find attached the 12 courts courtesy of the Donald Welsh collection - PB.
Above: images courtesy of the Donald Welsh collection.
See also: Universe No.100 Romanian Icelandic Chess 501 L.G. Sloan Ltd History of Alf Cooke.
By Simon Wintle
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