Timeline
Early History of Playing Cards & Timeline
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by Simon Wintle
Out of an apparent void, a constellation of references in early literature emerge pointing to the sudden arrival of playing cards, principally in Belgium, Germany, Spain and Italy around 1370-1380. Discover the early history of playing cards in our timeline from 50AD to the 15th century.
EPCS February 2007 Newsletter Members Only
Lee’s Comic Lottery • Mulford • Comic Conversation Cards • DLR 1835 Revisited • Carta Mundi Timeline • Geometre & Mechanick Powers • I Still Don’t Believe It • Dartabout • Notes From An Internet Games Seller • Worshipful Company 2006-7 • Meteor • Urania’s Mirror / Historical Dominoes • Dean’s Card adverts • Edward Mortimer - Halifax • Game of Animals • W.S. Penley • Trial by Jury • Special Lady’s Issue WCMPC 1890 • Multiplicity • Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards • Zovello • Real Photo Postcards • Victorian Instructional Cards - London
EPCS June 2008 Newsletter Members Only
The Journey • Reiss & Co • Editorial • Secretary’s notes • House Building Game • Raroria • Omar Sharif • How Old? Beat That! • Perhaps • World Weddings • Wills’ Gifts Revisited • Arithmetical Cards • Pelman Cards • Pips in Pictures • Hunt & Sons Rare Deck • Logomachy and Dondorf • Panto People • British Makers Timeline • Wrappers • Double-Ended Courts • Snap Catalogues • Nullos • Deakin Box & Ace • The Nose Game • Cripple Mr Onion • The Fat Pack • Butterfly Cards