Astra Games
38: Peter Gurney and Other 20th Century Minor Makers
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by Ken Lodge
Gurney was not the only printer who went briefly into the playing card business during the twentieth century.
Alfred Marks
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by Simon Wintle
Alfred Marks Recruitment Consultants publicity playing cards published by Astra Games
Astra Games
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by Simon Wintle
Astra Games was a subsidiary of the McCorquodale Group of Companies, producing playing cards during the period 1982-87.
EPCS February 2002 Newsletter Members Only
Richard Edward • Rorkes Drift - ZULU • Benno • Sir Gurney Benham • Nursery Rhyme & Travel Snap • The Studio Prize Competition • Cavalier Playing Cards • Pepys Quiz - Answers • Rummy Soccer • Spear's New Games 1894 • Big Box Card Games • Astra • Religious Cards • Game Scorers & Trump Indicators • Goodall & Willis January 1880 • Card Donation • L.G. Sloan & Universal • Frustrating Bridge Hand • Fables • Poets of the Card Table • Animal Snap - Revisited
EPCS June 2002 Newsletter Members Only
Golden Jubilee • Willis & Woolley 1876 • Happy Families - Music Sheet • Samson - Stanley Matthews • Cadbury Snap • Robinson • Poets at the Card Table/What's in the Box? • Harry Ferguson Ltd • Woolley Circular Cards • Historical Dominoes • Johnson's Toilet Powder • Cavalier Playing Cards • Bits from John and Clive • The 52 Club • Brewery Playing Cards • Help! / Samuel Pepys • Astra • Alfred Marks • Egyptian Fortune Telling