The World of Playing Cards Logo

Archives

2017 • October

Selected Year: 2017
Selected Month: October
Total Articles: 4,420

Lakeland

Lakeland

Lakeland playing cards by Stuart Lawrence depicting famous characters & views of England’s Lake District, c.1988.

Spider Solitaire

Spider Solitaire

Spider Solitaire is a free web site offering new versions of the classic solitaire card game

Counties of England 4th Series

Counties of England 4th Series

Jaques' Counties of England card game, 4th Series (Southern Counties), c.1910.

XVII Century Engraved Animal Cards

XVII Century Engraved Animal Cards

Anonymous French-suited German engraved cards c1610 to 1650.

Banana Leaf Cards

Banana Leaf Cards

English Standard pack hand drawn & coloured on banana leaf, c.1820.

Tô Tôm №1204

Tô Tôm №1204

Tô Tôm is played with a 120-card Chinese-style deck.

Jeu de la Géographie

Jeu de la Géographie

“Jeu de Géographie” educational playing cards etched by Stefano Della Bella and published in c.1644.

Stocks & Shares

Stocks & Shares

Stocks & Shares card game first published by Pepys Games in 1957.

Rat-a-Tat Cat

Rat-a-Tat Cat

Rat-a-Tat Cat illustrated by Roni Shepherd, published by Gamewright Inc, Boston, 1997.

Barribal patience

Barribal patience

Waddington’s Patience Cards from the Barribal Series, c.1929.

Austrian Wine

Austrian Wine

Skat deck for Austria’s excellent wines, Österreichischer Weinwirtschaftsfonds, c.1965

Lend Me Five Shillings

Lend Me Five Shillings

Lend Me Five Shillings; or, Her Majesty's Privy Purse by John Jaques & Son, c.1875

Goyesca

Goyesca

Baraja ‘Goyesca’ facsimile of original deck published in Madrid by Clemente de Roxas, 1814.

Penalty

Penalty

Penalty was invented by Ernesto Scola of Milan and published in the UK by Pepys in the 1960s

Rois de France

Rois de France

Cartes des Rois de France (1644) facsimile edition by Edizioni del Solleone, 1986.

Venezuela Baraja Turística

Venezuela Baraja Turística

Venezuela Souvenir deck by Heraclio Fournier, c.1980s.

Pashas

Pashas

“Pasha” is one of Charles Goodall’s brands which first appeared in c.1898 and was retained until after the De la Rue takeover.

Mordillo Skat

Mordillo Skat

Mordillo Skat designed by Guillermo Mordillo, c.1979

Far East

Far East

Far East playing cards with designs by Isabel Ibáñez de Sendadiano, c.1980.

Waves From Around the World

Waves From Around the World

Waves From Around the World playing cards with photography by Aaron Chang.

Four Feather Falls

Four Feather Falls

Tower Press “Four Feather Falls Snap” No 6587, based on successful TV series, c1960.

Karoo

Karoo

“Karoo”, later reissued as “Triplem”, by Oppenheimer und Sulzbacher, c.1900.

Kargo

Kargo

Kargo or Card Golf published by Kum-Bak Sports Toys & Games, c.1930.

Oppenheimer und Sulzbacher

Oppenheimer und Sulzbacher

Card games produced in Germany by Oppenheimer und Sulzbacher.

Scouting

Scouting

Scouting, a card game about boy scouts, appeared in 1955.