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2016 • May

Selected Year: 2016
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Astronaut

Astronaut

Astronaut card game published by Pepys Series (Castell Bros) celebrating the arrival of space travel, 1960s

49: De La Rue in detail

49: De La Rue in detail

A detailed presentation of the variants of De La Rue's standard cards.

Housewives Tarot

Housewives Tarot

Retro-style ‘Housewives Tarot’ designed by Paul Kepple & Jude Buffum, published by Quirk Books, 2004.

  • 2004
Strange People

Strange People

“Strange People” card game produced by the Fireside Game Co., Cincinnati, 1895.

  • 1895
Guru Ganjifa

Guru Ganjifa

Sunish Chabba is working on an initiative to revive traditional Ganjifa, the card game most popular 17th Century India.

  • 2016
Nationalities

Nationalities

“Nationalities”, the people of many nations, published by the Fireside Game Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, c.1897.

  • 1897
St Hubert’s Bridge

St Hubert’s Bridge

“St Hubert’s Bridge” published by Éditions Philibert, Paris, c.1956.

  • 1956
Corsaires et Flibustiers

Corsaires et Flibustiers

“Corsaires et Flibustiers” playing cards created by G. Delluc and published by Éditions Philibert, Paris, 1958.

  • 1958
Ship Sails

Ship Sails

“Ship Sails” card game c.1885.

  • 1885
Comic Conversation

Comic Conversation

Old Time “Comic Conversation” cards published by McLoughlin Bros, N.Y., c.1887.

  • 1887
Paris Scenes

Paris Scenes

“Paris Story” playing cards published by Éditions Philibert, c.1957, showing photographic scenes of Paris.

  • 1957
Game of Nations

Game of Nations

The “Game of Nations” depicting caricatures of traditional costumes manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers, USA 1890s.

  • 1890
Merry Game of Old Maid

Merry Game of Old Maid

The Merry Game of Old Maid published by McLoughlin Brothers, c.1880s.

  • 1880
Die Vogel-Welt No. 351

Die Vogel-Welt No. 351

Dondorf’s “Die Vogel-Welt” No. 351 quartet game, c.1905

  • 1905
British American Tobacco patience

British American Tobacco patience

Patience deck for British American Tobacco printed by Speelkaartenfabriek Nederland c.1940

Doctor Busby

Doctor Busby

“Game of Doctor Busby“- anonymous manufacturer, c.1850.

  • 1850
Mother Goose’s Party, or Merry Game of Old Maid

Mother Goose’s Party, or Merry Game of Old Maid

Mother Goose’s Party, or Merry Game of Old Maid, McLoughlin Bros., Inc., USA, 1887.

  • 1887
Parker Brothers

Parker Brothers

Parker Brothers, Salem, Mass., USA.

Doctor Busby

Doctor Busby

The Game of “Doctor Busby” published by Parker Brothers, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, c.1890.

  • 1890
John Bull

John Bull

“John Bull”, the Capital English Game published by W. Cremer, c.1865.

  • 1865
Funny Families

Funny Families

“Funny Families” card game manufactured by Woolley & Co, 1890s.

  • 1890
1900 Jeu de Cartes

1900 Jeu de Cartes

‘Jeu de Cartes 1900’ designed by Marie Christine Schira in the Art Nouveau or Jugendstil style, 1979.

  • 1979
Kargo

Kargo

Kargo golf card game manufactured by Castell Brothers Ltd for Pepys Games, c.1936.

  • 1936
Snap by Woolley & Co

Snap by Woolley & Co

‘Cries of London Snap’ by Woolley & Co Ltd, c.1905 with cheerful figures of street vendors.

  • 1905
The Traveler’s Companion

The Traveler’s Companion

The “Traveler’s Companion”, Union Playing Card Co., New York, c.1886.

Sefite card game

Sefite card game

“Sefite” card game, Woolley & Co,. Ltd, London, c.1905

  • 1905