Children's Card Games
The games we play mirror the world we live in, like popular art. There was a time when friends and family played indoor games by the fireside and enjoyed countless hours of pleasure and amusement. Children don’t play card games so much because they prefer computer games, the ultimate excitement. Antique and vintage card games offer documentary evidence, as well as nostalgic memories, of the social interaction, fashions and stereotypes of bygone days and are a study in social anthropology.
Nationalities
“Nationalities”, the people of many nations, published by the Fireside Game Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, c.1897.
Natuurkwartet
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by Simon Wintle
Nature Quartet game published by Staatsbosbeheer, printed by Roem Speelkaarten, Kampen.
Naval and Military Families
Naval and Military Families produced by Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg, printed by Ernst Nister of Nuremberg, c.1905-10.
Nederlands Stedenkwartet
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by Simon Wintle
Nederlands Stedenkwartet with heraldic needlepoint patterns by Permin, c.1970.
Nederlandsche Oliefabriek
This beautiful quartet game from Holland illustrates the strange life cycle of the peanut.
Netherlands Kostuum Kwartet
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by Simon Wintle
Dutch costumes quartet game designed by Gerard Huijg, 1983.
Neues Frag˗ und Antwortspiel
Neues Frag- und Antwortspiel (new question and answer game) from Germany.
Nintendo Mario Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Special cartoon playing cards designed to accompany Nintendo's Mario series of computer games.
Noah’s Ark Card Game
Noah’s Ark Card Game, c.1905, which in its day helped to teach the Old Testament worldview
Noddy Happy Families
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by Simon Wintle
Enid Blyton’s Noddy Happy Families was published in 1955 by Sampson Low, 25 Gilbert Street, London W.1., manufactured in Great Britain.
