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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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Starlight

Starlight

‘Starlight’ playing cards - brightening the lives of seriously ill children - published by Simon Lucas Bridge Supplies Ltd.

Stocks & Shares

Stocks & Shares

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

  • 1957
Stop Thief & Snip-Snap

Stop Thief & Snip-Snap

Another late Victorian family card game by Thomas de la Rue & Co Ltd, c.1895 with beautifully illustrated period characters.

  • 1895
Stop! I forbid the Sale!

Stop! I forbid the Sale!

“Stop! I forbid the Sale!” card game published by H.P. Gibson & Sons Ltd, c.1939.

  • 1939
Storks Snap

Storks Snap

Snap game based on characters from the film “Storks” c.2016.

  • 2016
Strip Tease

Strip Tease

‘Strip Tease’ card game featuring characters involved in the performance and subsequent prosecution of an imaginary strip tease

  • 1937
Strongbow ‘House of Horror’

Strongbow ‘House of Horror’

‘House of Horror’ Halloween deck published by Strongbow cider, 2015.

  • 2015
Suicide King

Suicide King

The King of Hearts, holding a sword behind his head, is sometimes nicknamed the “Suicide King”. He can be seen to derive from a late medieval design showing a King wielding a battle axe.

Sum-it Card Game

Sum-it Card Game

‘Sum-it’ Card Game published by Sum-It Card Games Ltd. c.1935.

  • 1935
Swastika designs

Swastika designs

Swastika design playing cards by De La Rue, c.1925.

Sweetule Natural History cards

Sweetule Natural History cards

Small cards featuring natural history subjects, given away with packets of sweet cigarettes.

  • 1961
Sylabex / Wordmaker

Sylabex / Wordmaker

Sylabex / Wordmaker was first published by Pepys in 1948.

  • 1948
T. Drayton & Son

T. Drayton & Son

Bezique and Whist boxed sets by T. Drayton & Son, London, c.1875.

  • 1875
Take Control : Drugs

Take Control : Drugs

Take Control : Drug advice playing cards produced by Safer Publications, United Kingdom, 2007.

  • 2007
Tarot of the Everlasting Day - AI Generated Tarot

Tarot of the Everlasting Day - AI Generated Tarot

Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated tarot deck produced by Marcus Katz. Is this science fiction or the future of tarot?

  • 2022
Tax Payers’ Alliance

Tax Payers’ Alliance

The Tax Payers’ Alliance Political Trumps was first produced in 2007.

Tea & Coffee Lovers playing cards

Tea & Coffee Lovers playing cards

Tea & Coffee Lovers playing cards produced by Cultzilla.

  • 2020
Team GB

Team GB

Great Britains’s Olympic gold medallists from 1964 to 2004 published by the British Olympic Association.

  • 2005
Tease Me

Tease Me

‘Tease Me’ 1960s glamour pack.

  • 1960
Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear playing cards designed by Peter Wood for Lyons Quickbrew Tea.