Hunt & Sons

37: Late 19th Century Card-Makers and Problem Cases
After the Old Frizzle period and the tax was reduced to 3d per pack, from 1862 onwards, a number of makers started up, who hadn't made cards before, although they were part of the paper and pasteboard industry.

66: Adverts and related material 1862-1900
Some further material relating to cards from nineteenth and twentieth century periodicals.


76: Transitions: Hunt & Sons
Styles change and technology develops. This means that it's possible to see transition periods in the production of playing cards: single-ended to double-ended, no indices to indices, square corners to round corners, and so on. I'll take Hunt & Sons as an example and look at the gradual changes that can be perceived from c.1810 to 1828, before Old Frizzle was introduced.

EPCS August 1988 Newsletter Members Only
Tercentenary William and Mary 1988 • Fortune Telling Card • Lexicon • Joseph Hunt & Son • Collecting Theme: Whisky Distillers • English Jokers • Piquet Packs • SNAP Nursery Rhymes • The Big BAANG: Stock Exchange

EPCS August 1996 Newsletter Members Only
Euro 96 Football • WWII • Frizzle • Women's Suffrage • James English • Peerless Card Co. • Dr Who • Gilbert & Sullivan • Norwich Cathedral • KAN-U-GO • Flora • C.W. Faulkner • Roman Numerals • Heads of House Game • Zetmea • Joseph Hunt & Sons • SNAP • Universal for Denmark • Schweppes Ephemera

EPCS Febuary 1988 Newsletter Members Only
Queen Mary • Healthguard Underwear • Newmarket Multum in Parvo Company • English Standard Card Manufacturers (Part 5) Joseph Hunt & Sons London • Woolley Card Games: OLD MAID and SNAP • Rhymes about Royalty or The Comical Court Cards (Part 3) • KAN-YOU-GO-AGAIN • Not a Lotta Bottle!! • Metropolitan Vickers Lamps • London's Loyal Volunteers: 450th Anniversary of HAC, PANKO, Votes for Women • Waddington pack with no borders to Court Cards • The Big Baang! • Walt Disney Anniversaries • Non-Standard Jokers.

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

EPCS May 1988 Newsletter Members Only
Royal Air Force • Fortune Telling Card • Hunts Playing Card Manufacturers • KAN-U-GO • Unstamped Cards-Waste Cards-Toy Cards • William Phenomenon • SNAP (Part 3) • Shipping Line • Waddington Five Suit Bridge • Collecting Theme: Whisky Distillers • Cosmos Lamps

EPCS November 1987 Newsletter Members Only
Waddington Festive Season 1980 pack • The Background Story of 'Q' Playing Cards • Rhymes about Royalty or The Comical Court Card (Part 2) • Courtenay Edward Maxwell Pollock & Louis Wain • English Standard Card Manufacturers (Part 4) Joseph Hunt & Son • Card Games for Vanity Fair • A Dickens Mystery • An Early 'Animal Grab' Game • Wider than Wide • P&O 150 Years Anniversary • Olympic Caricature Snap • Naval, Military and Aircraft Packs • Special Christmas 1926 Supplement • Peeps into the Past for Boots.

EPCS November 2008 Newsletter Members Only
Key to the Kingdom • Jacksons Score Cards • Editorial • Feedback • Secretary’s Note • Sabrina Pack • Danger - Mines • Bonzo Transfers • News from the USA • US Forces & Archaeology • A Bezique Surprise • JW Mitchell Joker • From Wanganui to Inverneil • Danger - UXO • St George, Britannia & Union Arms • Card Coinage • Card Structures • US Royals Ad • Scoring Cards • Bubbles Happy Families • Douce Collection (Fulwood) • More Arithmetical Cards • Dean’s Games • Notabilities • Lecardo: An Ingenious pack

Hunt & Sons, 1820-1849
Hunt & Sons (1820-1849) was the first maker to modernise the court card designs with a complete re-drawing.

Transformation c.1880
Transformation playing cards hand-drawn on a pack manufactured by Hunt’s Playing Card Manufacturing Co Ltd c.1880

Why our playing-cards look the way they do
Analysis of early playing card designs: origins, suit differences, standardization, technological advancements and key innovations leading to modern designs.