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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.

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Proverbs and Maxims

Proverbs and Maxims

Naipe Infantil Gauchito children’s miniature playing cards with Proverbs and Maxims on the reverse,

Prudence Snap c.1950

Prudence Snap c.1950

Chad Valley “Prudence Kitten Snap” card game designed by Annette Mills.

Pulgarcito

Pulgarcito

Pulgarcito (Tom Thumb) card game published by H Fournier, 1981.

Pumuckl quartet game

Pumuckl quartet game

Quartet game featuring the kobold Pumuckl, creation of the German author Ellis Kaut.

Punch & Judy

Punch & Judy

Punch and Judy card game published by Pepys, 1956.

Question and Answer Games

Question and Answer Games

A card game called “Impertinent Questions and Pertinent Answers” was launched in the early 1920s by H.P Gibson & Sons Ltd.

Questions and Answers

Questions and Answers

Questions and Answers card game by Globe Series, c.1900.

Quickie Wheelchairs

Quickie Wheelchairs

Uncut sheet of ‘Quickie’ Wheelchairs Quartet card game, made in Poland 2004

Quits

Quits

Jaques' Quits card game, c.1880-85, with portraits of monarchs inside suit symbols in red, blue and yellow, designed to assist in the education of school children in British history.

Race-Cardo

Race-Cardo

Race-Cardo published by C.W. Faulkner & Co Ltd, c.1925.

Radio Banker

Radio Banker

Radio Banker by John Waddington Ltd for Marconiphone Co Ltd.

Rally

Rally

Rally card game by Pepys, 1955.

Rat-a-Tat Cat

Rat-a-Tat Cat

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

Regional Costumes

Regional Costumes

Spanish regional costumes and coats-of-arms; cute illustrations on each card, 1986.

Riders of the Range

Riders of the Range

Riders of the Range by Pepys, 1953.

Roberts Brothers Ltd, Gloucester

Roberts Brothers Ltd, Gloucester

Roberts Brothers Ltd, Gloucester (Glevum Brand) ‘Old Maid’ card game, 1920s.

Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Robin Hood card game published by Pepys, 1956.

Roodles

Roodles

Roodles by A J Patterson, 1912.

Round Britain

Round Britain

Round Britain card game published by Pepys Games, 1955.

Round Europe

Round Europe

Round Europe card game by Pepys, 1958.