Playing Cards for Consumer Advertising, Marketing & Promotion
Closely following the development of visual advertising in general, such as on labels, packaging, posters and TV commercials, advertising playing cards seek to find ways to associate products with our inner desires and longings, with our identity and who we want to be. Some packs are widely distributed as part of larger promotions, others are more exclusive. In some cases single cards are collected from inside the advertised product, thereby stimulating further sales to complete a full set.
EPCS November 1985 Newsletter Members Only
The King of Spades (The English Court: Part 10) • Fragments from France • Games Packs Theme: Wireless • Beautiful Britain (Part 5) • Owen Jones and his card back designs • Metropolitan Vickers, War Games • Remembrance Day
EPCS November 1988 Newsletter Members Only
History of The Olympic Games • Lexicon • Collecting Theme: Whisky Distillers • Cosmos Happy Families • Joseph Revnolds & Sons • Happy Couples by H.A. Mullord Bros • Kings and Queens of England Misfitz • Samples of De la Rue and price lists • 50th Anniversary of RAF SNAP • P&O Steamship 'CHINA' • Culbertsons Own Self Teaching Playing cards for Contract Bridge
EPCS November 1990 Newsletter Members Only
Cunard Shipping Line • Isle of Man • 1982 & 1983 Worshipful Company Pack • Hignett Bros • Circular • SNAP • WW1 • Deakins Political • Thomas De La Rue • FLEETS of Liverpool Happy Families • Noddy
EPCS November 1991 Newsletter Members Only
World Rugby Cup 1991 • Royal Residence: Windsor Castle • CWS SNAP • OXO • Thomas De La Rue • W.D. & H.O. WILLS • Capstan Cigarettes • Selfridges • Allied Breweries • Army & Navy • Ethiopian
EPCS November 1995 Newsletter Members Only
John Jaques & Son 1795-1995 Bicentenary • Dr Livingstone • Irish Scenery • Parole • Golden Question • Battleships & Battlecruisers • Brewery List • Stamps • James English • Rupert the Bear • Waddy Productions • Colmans Mustard • Michelin • OXO
EPCS November 1996 Newsletter Members Only
Cinderella and Prince Charming • Pantomime • Isle of Man • Rapide Printing • Denny Brothers [Denbro] • WWII • Boddingtons Bitter • Peerless • James English • Jolly Families • Lady Charlotte Schreiber [1812-1895] • Question of Duty • Battleships • Nell Gwyn • Bath Pack • Regency Pack • Porcelain • Goodall's Card Games
EPCS November 1997 Newsletter Members Only
Tribute to Diana Princess of Wales • Battle of Cambrai 1917 • Goodall Transformation • BEZIQUE Music • Golden Wedding of The Queen & Duke of Edinburgh • Jackspack • Cotswold Happy Families • I can't believe it's not butter • Animal Snap • Hall & Son • Tit-Bits • LEXICON (French Edition) • Dickens Mystery • Jazz • Floral • Radiant • Game of Animals • Isle of Man (Part 10) • William Kimberley Royal National Patriotic • Millennium Projects • Waddington American War of Independence
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 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 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
Escalada y Vidiella, Montevideo c.1860
Cards from a 40-card pack made in Belgium by Antoine van Genechten exclusively for the firm "Escalada y Vidiella" based in Montevideo (Uruguay) in c.1860.
Estudio Negrin PIRELLI, c.1960
Estudio Negrin playing cards for PIRELLI, made by Orestes A. Cappellano S.R.L., Buenos Aires, Argentina, c.1960.
Esveco Specialities B.V.
Alto Imaging Group playing cards manufactured by Esveco Specialities B.V., c.1990s
Eurocell® playing cards
Promotional playing cards produced by Eurocell® (UPVC window, door, conservatory and roofline systems), United Kingdom.
Fabrica de Cigarrillos Roldan y Cia, Lima, Peru
The design of the figures is very agile with excellent colour harmony and execution.
Farmall playing cards
Farmall playing cards advertising International Harvester tractors, USA, c.2015.
Fastener S.R.L.
Fastener S.R.L. are manufacturers bolts and industrial fasteners. Traditional Spanish suit symbols have been substituted by various kinds of nuts and bolts.
Ferguson Happy Families
Ferguson Happy Families card game was produced by Ferguson Electronics and printed by John Waddington Ltd in c.1960.