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Playing cards first arrived in England during the 15th century, but none have survived from such an early date.

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EPCS November 1998 Newsletter

EPCS November 1998 Newsletter Members Only

Comic Adventure of Dame Trot & Cat • Fiftieth Birthday of HRH Prince of Wales • King George IV as King of Hearts • Exciting Find in Shanghai • 80th Anniversary of WWI End • King of Spades by Bruce Bairnsfather • Fragments From France by Bruce Bairnsfather • De La Rue Exportation • Wedding of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert • Nursery Rhyme SNAP • Dick Whittington Story • Axminster 100 & National Museum York • Happy Families • Elaruna • Arpak No Revoke • Girl Guide SNAP • Logical Challenge: Cards on the Table • Royal Fabric Playing Cards • Ephemera: Campo, Zuil and Draft

EPCS November 1999 Newsletter

EPCS November 1999 Newsletter Members Only

City Imperial Volunteers: Boer War • Hand Decorated Transformation Pack • Story Behind the Card: Bonallack & Sons • Discovering Nursery Rhymes: John Cooper • Nursery Rhyme Snap: Mo Mohile • Films and Fiction: November 1932 • Play Your Cards Right: Neil Darbyshire • Colchester: Nursery Rhyme Connection • New Issues: Queen Elizabeth Special Aces • English Standard Card Manufacturers: Hall & Bancks • The Realm • Goodall's Federation Playing Cards • Alfred the Great's Grave

EPCS November 2005 Newsletter

EPCS November 2005 Newsletter Members Only

Top Trumps • Clifford Toys / Tricklico • Blackpool Souvenir • Squiggles • Esquire • Alberto Vargas • A Find? • Early Playing Cards • Fortune Telling Cards • Court Fools & Jesters (cont) • The Rolls Razor • The Virtue of Princes • Bovril Poster Snap • Defenders of the Empire • Waddington Catalogue 1981 • Tricards

EPCS October 2000 Newsletter

EPCS October 2000 Newsletter Members Only

That's Donald: Card Reverse • Queen Mother's Birthday • Rudge Whitworth Cycles • Pack of Cards: Spades • Oscar Wilde: 100th Death Anniversary • International Cards: Duke of Edinburgh Marriage • AVRO VULCAN: Old War Bird • Nursery Rhyme Snap • Daily Express Centenary • New Issues: Various Themes • Peg's Lucky Cards • King George V: Pneumatic Ace • Mickey Mouse: Special Box • Non-Standard Ace Packs • Bric-a-Brac: Odds & Ends • Cat Snap • J&W Mitchell: Card Manufacturers • Bezique Marker: A.Collier • Pepy's Kargo Drawings • Barribal Waddington: EXIDE Battery • Whist Score Cards • Louis Wain: NAP Game • Christmas Dickens: Non-Standard Packs • House of Cards: C.E.B. Bernard • Playing with Numbers • Bystander Fragments

EPCS October 2001 Newsletter

EPCS October 2001 Newsletter Members Only

Idalia • Patience Books • Themes for Novice Collectors • 19th Century Advertising • Put-Togethers • The Interflora Story • New Wimbledon • Mulord Brothers • Our Circus Friends Snap • Edison & Swan • Thackeray Zeter • Ace of Clubs Eph • Miscellanea • Game Scorers & Trump Indicators • Spelka • Limerique • Pepys Card Game Quiz • Beautiful Britain • Harper & Co • The Millennium Pack

EPCS October 2002 Newsletter

EPCS October 2002 Newsletter Members Only

Football Cards • Worshipful Company Commonwealth Games • Cavalier Playing Cards (cont) • Whist & Party Cards • Rare Goodall • Poets at the Card Table • Great Bezique Race 1868 • Crested Backs Masonic • Odd Wads • British Brewery Cards • Cope & Timmins • The Royal Game of Omnibus • Spears Old Maid • Woodland Happy Families • Historical Dominoes • Marto • Phew! • South African Cards • The Same Whichever Way • The Back Side

EPCS October 2003 Newsletter

EPCS October 2003 Newsletter Members Only

Essence of the Law • Waddington Catalogue • Wandsworth • Picart Le Doux & De La Rue • Cards In Art (part 1) • Shop Window (DLR) • Secondary Use • Axis of Weasels • Regime Change • Regime Change Begins At Home • Crested Packs Revisited • Enhist Pack • Lumley Model Agency • Trump Indicators (Butlers) • Postcards (Kaplan) • Napoleonic Boxes/Poets at the Card Table • Variations – Animal Snap • W. F Rock • Cupid’s Conversionist • Figures of Fun • Historical Pope Joan

EPCS October 2004 Newsletter

EPCS October 2004 Newsletter Members Only

40 Thieves • SDP & Waddington • Scottish Educational Cards • Kan-u-go Singing / Mystery • Waddington Catalogue 1979 cont • Two Goodall Aces • Redline • Golf Cards • Great Storm • Warning to Gamblers and Swearers • Besique 1870 • Toby's Family • Lenthal Broadside • The Rubaiyat of a Bridge Player • The Wedding • Orient Express – The Real Article • Mr William Straker • The Dansant Whist • Orient Express – The Real Boyle

EPCS October 2023 Newsletter

EPCS October 2023 Newsletter Members Only

Thomas Creswick c.1829 • Winstanley King of Clubs • S.P.G. Caribbean Happy Families • Alice in Wonderland - De La Rue • Pepys • William Bowes - Cardmaker • A Very Rare Pack of English Standard Playing Cards • I Commit • Crime and Punishment • Two Rugby Games • Kirno • 17th Century Court Cards

EPCS September 1984 Newsletter

EPCS September 1984 Newsletter Members Only

De La Rue Trade Marks • Six Artists • The King of Diamonds • P&O • Historical Games

EPCS September 1985 Newsletter

EPCS September 1985 Newsletter Members Only

The English Pastime • The Jack of Hearts (The English Court: Part 9) • Playing Cards at The Great Exhibition 1851 & The London Exhibition 1862 • Game Packs Theme Collecting: War Games • Khanhoo • Metropolitan Vickers Lamps

EPCS Transformation

EPCS Transformation

The English Playing Card Society's 10th Anniversary Transformation Playing Cards designed and produced by Karl Gerich, 1993.

Esquire Magazine

Esquire Magazine

Promotional deck produced by the British gentleman’s magazine “Esquire” c.2002.

Ethics Education playing cards

Ethics Education playing cards

Ethics Education playing cards produced by the Centre for Military Ethics at King’s College London, 2016.

EU52 Deck of Cards

EU52 Deck of Cards

“EU52 Deck of Cards“ Eurosceptic political playing cards published by 52 Jokers Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015.

Eurocell® playing cards

Eurocell® playing cards

Promotional playing cards produced by Eurocell® (UPVC window, door, conservatory and roofline systems), United Kingdom.

Even More Trial and Error

Even More Trial and Error

“Even More Trial and Error” produced by the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards, United Kingdom, 2016.

Express 1st Edition

Express 1st Edition

Pepys Express 1st edition, 1947 (before the nationalisation of the railways in 1948).

Express 2nd Edition

Express 2nd Edition

Pepys “Express” card game 2nd edition c.1955.

Fair Play

Fair Play

Fair Play budget brand by Piatnik first appeared c.1950 before disappearing in c.1990.