Archives
2014 • March
Waddy Productions
Waddy Productions Ltd was a member of the giant Amalgamated Press group and only published card games for a short period in the 1930s.
Mauclair Dacier Familles
This “Jeu de Sept Familles” was produced by Mauclair Dacier in the late 19th century.
Grand Jeu Lenormand
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by Simon Wintle
A pack of 54 playing-cards for fortune-telling each card containing a number of zodiacal, classical and modern images with a miniature card of the conventional type at top left and a letter of the alphabet at top right.
Nederlandsche Oliefabriek
This beautiful quartet game from Holland illustrates the strange life cycle of the peanut.
Swiss Costumes
Wüst's Swiss Cantons souvenir deck was published in Frankfurt in c.1875 for the emerging tourist market.
Daveluy
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by Simon Wintle
Daveluy produced card games between c.1840 and 1890. Many of his playing cards are in neo-medieval style with landscape backgrounds.
Première Croisade
Deck evoking the ‘Première Croisade’ with single-ended courts by Daveluy, Bruges, c.1850.
Caught in a Trap
A Victorian card game telling a story of a victim being ensnared in a trap, being caught, and finally escaping.
The Great Galumphus
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by Simon Wintle
The “Great Galumphus” card game from the 1920s shows various comic animals with their names printed alongside, designed by Miss Jessie Veal.
Cartomancia Astrología Quirologia Tests
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by Simon Wintle
A set of rather unusual and non-standard cartomancy cards from Argentina with religious connotations and imaginative artwork
Old Bavarian pattern
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by Simon Wintle
Uncut sheets of playing cards of the Old Bavarian pattern by Michael Schatzberger, Passau, c.1780.
Hodges’ Constellations
Hodges’ pack dealing with astronomy had numeral cards carrying diagrams of constellations and their pictorial representations.
Bodegas Trapiche
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by Simon Wintle
Promotional playing cards produced for Bodegas Trapiche, designed to play Quartet games by collecting a wine bottle card with four matching glasses.
Jewish Card Game
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by Simon Wintle
Judaism is the oldest of the great monotheist religions, parent of Christianity and Islam.
XV Century Catalan playing cards
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by Simon Wintle
XV Century Catalan Playing Cards, featuring four female Sotas, four Aces and four cards from the suit of batons.
