Victorian
A Royal Game
A Royal Game featuring Queen Victoria’s children and extended family, published by A. Collier, London, c.1896.
Chad Valley ‘Sporting Snap’ c.1895
Chad Valley ‘Sporting Snap’ card game designed by Max Pollock c.1895.
Chas Goodall and Son 1820-1922
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by Simon Wintle
Today nothing remains of Charles Goodall's Camden Works, where three-quarters of the playing cards printed in Britain were produced.
District Messenger
District Messengers were uniformed young men wearing little pill-box hats and mounted on bicycles who fulfilled urgent tasks and were paid by the mile
EPCS June 2001 Newsletter Members Only
Rare Universal Joker • Great Exhibition 50th Anniversary • Queen Victoria Death • Another Animal Snap • Featured Deck: Reynolds Fortune Telling • Advertising & Cards • Domino Cards • Tate & Lyle Story • Sir Donald Bradman • Peculiar Cards • Game Counters • Poets at Card Table • Pinhead Method • New Royal Mail Issue • New Heritage Issues • Lecardo
EPCS June 2023 Newsletter Members Only
Coronation • Who Were Rowley & Co. • Research Archives by WCMPC • Winstanley Queen of Clubs • Kirk's London Cries Revisited • Pub Quiz Snap • Street Cries Snap • Jarvis Porter • Ogilvy Game • Precedence • Rock Brothers and Pope Joan • A Fight Between Cardmakers • Brexit - the Real Deal • A French Mystery • Crown the Queen • Transformation Cards
EPCS November 2006 Newsletter Members Only
Lucky Shots • EPCS 25 • Promotional Miniatures • Suffragette • Victorian Instruction Cards • Historical Memento • Livery Companies • WHOT • Car-Soc • De La Rue 1835 • Sforza Page of Staves • Iranian Patience Pack • Urania’s Mirror (Ad) • Victoria Casino 21st • The Telephone • Bits • Splash Page Special • Game of Animals (Ad) • CWF & USPCC • Gypsy Leah’s Card Fortune Book • Barclays Imperial Russian Stout • Thought-Reading by Cards • Theatre Adverts • Prince of Wales Wedding Pips • Prince of Wales Wedding Courts
Goodall c.1845-60
Goodall’s earliest cards were traditional in appearance but in around 1845 ‘modernised’ courts were designed
Goodall’s “Historic” Playing Cards
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by Simon Wintle
Goodall’s “Historic” Playing Cards depict royal costumes of four periods in English history, 1893.
House of Tudor
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by Adam Wintle
Randy Butterfield's House of Tudor playing cards feature detailed art in a high-quality collectible style.
Jaques’ Illustrated Proverbs
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by Simon Wintle
Jaques’ Illustrated Proverbs, c.1870. The complete proverb is printed along the top of each card in the set.
Lend Me Five Shillings
Lend Me Five Shillings; or, Her Majesty's Privy Purse by John Jaques & Son, c.1875
Most Laughable Thing on Earth
The Most Laughable Thing on Earth, or, A Trip to Paris published by H. G. Clarke & Co., London, c.1870.
Multum in Parvo Co., Ltd
Multum in Parvo published a range of indoor games during the period from 1884-1927.
Nineteenth Century Pack
A magnificent example of Goodall & Son’s range of chromolithographed Commemorative playing cards from the late nineteenth century..
