Fashion & Costume
Dutch costume playing cards from an unknown maker
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by Paul Symons
Another pack of Dutch costume playing cards c.1880.
El Aguila
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by Simon Wintle
Naipes ‘El Aguila’ with flamboyantly dressed court figures made in Mexico by La Cubana S.A., c.1975.
El Rodeo Talabartería
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by Simon Wintle
Promotional playing cards produced for ‘El Rodeo Talabartería’ specialising in leather goods and clothing, Buenos Aires, c.2006.
EPCS June 2009 Newsletter Members Only
Spears Happy Families • Fleets Visit • Editorial • Feedback • Secretary’s Note • Chairman’s Notes • Spears Games Advert • Buccaneer Bridge • Quaker & Valentines • 80 Years On • Gamages 1913 Catalogue Advert • Once In A Lifetime • Dean & Manley • Mendelian HF • Heraldic Game • 25th Anniversary Photos • Costume Game • Pepys Standard Cards • Trial of James Knipe • Trial of John Blacklin • Uncarnot Tarot • Marcus Ward • The House that Jack Built • Curious Cards - Public Advertiser • Card Makers Own? • Crimea Game Pack • Crimea
EPCS June 2024 Newsletter
Lenthall’s Delightful Cards • Fine China Loving Cup • 64th Pioneer Regt. A Relic of the Raj • Driving the Old Woman to Bed • Speed - the Ships • Speed 8 - Another One Found! • Czech Happy Families • French Costume Cards by de Larmessin • A Goodall Ace of Spades and A Sad Story • Scoop • (Don’t) All Shout at Once: The Fleet Street Games and Others • Parker Brothers - A Note • A Simple Piquet Pack • Astronaut • A Royal Flush • Aesop’s Fables
Estonian Ethnographic Playing Cards
Estonian national costumes and everyday items feature on this pack made in Estonia.
Europe
“Europe” designed by Teodoro N. Miciano and printed by Heraclio Fournier in 1962, portraying XIV century European fashions.
Fancy Dress Ball
Spear’s “Fancy Dress Ball” card game with children dressed in period costumes, 1930s.
Fashion costume pack by O. Gibert
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by Simon Wintle
Elegant fashion costume deck published by O. Gibert, Paris c.1860.
Fashion Face Off
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by Matt Probert
“Fashion Face Off” card game illustrated by Erin Petson for Laurence King Publishing, c.2011.
Folk Cards
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by Marc Pavone
Folk Cards designed by Krystyna Gruchalska-Bunsch for Lot Polish Airlines, 1962.
French Costumes
During the early 19th century. O. Gibert of Paris produced a series of such fashion packs, or packs depicting historical characters.
Hackett Magical Christmas Gift Guide playing cards
Hackett Magical Christmas Gift Guide playing cards, United Kingdom, 2017.
Hôtels-Grils Campanile
Publicity pack for the Campanile hotel and restaurant chain featuring French provincial costumes, with designs by James Hodges.
Jeu de Costumes Historiques
These cards are from neatly etched plates, and are carefully coloured. The court cards present full-length figures in character costumes.
Jeu de Costumes Historiques Anglais
The courts are full-length figures of English historical personages.
Jeu des Rois de France
This beautifully engraved and pleasing deck designed in 1856 has French Kings and consorts as the Kings and Queens, with noble attendants as the Jacks, all dressed in magnificent period costumes.
