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.
Parkinson’s Happy Families
Parkinson’s Happy Families published by Parkinson’s of Doncaster, confectioners established in the early nineteenth century.
Penalty
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by Matt Probert
Penalty was invented by Ernesto Scola of Milan and published in the UK by Pepys in the 1960s
Period Pieces
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by Matt Probert
National Trust Period Pieces Antiques Game produced in 1976 by Dinosaur Publications.
Peter Pan
“Peter Pan” pictorial card game published by H. P. Gibson & Sons in c.1912 and manufactured by Thomas de la Rue & Co Ltd from drawings by Charles A. Buchel (1872–1950).
