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Collectors’ Playing Cards for Sale

Published October 04, 2024 Updated December 15, 2024

Some interesting playing cards for sale.

Sale List

I TRY TO PUT REASONABLE PRICES ON WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER; COMPARE THEM WITH eBAY AND OTHER INTERNET SELLERS. I change the items from time to time and remove some of the unsold ones; if you saw something on an earlier list and it's no longer there, it might be worth asking whether I still have it. For purchases, please contact me by e-mail: k.lodge111@btinternet.com

Please note that POSTAGE is EXTRA.

CARD BOXES

The following are card boxes with no cards:

B1 Lacquer box with five internal compartments, c.1870-80, small chips to surface and discolouration to the lid, £40

B2 Nain-Jaune box with separable trays and coloured counters, dated in hand-writing as a birthday gift 7th August 1909, good condition, £58

B3 Unusual polished box with coromandel veneer, brass straps and agate inserts, brass key and lock, counters, markers and draughts (no board) inside and very unusual, removable oval gilded brass scoreboards for bézique and cribbage, by Betjeman of London, c.1870, excellent condition. Offers around £500.

CARDS

1 Unknown, probably British, Families game with images of people from distant lands, bottom of slide-in box, c.1930, VG+ £25

2 Masenghini double box, copy of Goodall/De La Rue's prewar wide courts, c.2005, box, hardly used £6

3 Taiwan for John Lewis, Christmas tree triangular pack, box, 2008, mint £5 [SOLD]

4 USPCC De Luxe, bridge width, (a) 1963; (b) different joker, 1966, excellent £2 each

5 Waddington for Star cigarettes, c.1938, no box, not joker, excellent £5

6 Piatnik Dante & Beatrice non-standard pack with pictorial aces (Italian scenes) and courts representing characters from Dante's work, Italian tax stamp for 1923, in a leather upright box with small gold inlay design round the edge, joker and extra cards, worn gold edges, VG+ £138

7 Paul-Son for Sands Casino, Las Vegas, unusual courts, holed and marked along the sides for security purposes, box, c.1990, VG+ £3

8 Bielefelder Berlin pattern Skat with agricultural advert on backs, plastic box, c.1960, VG £2

9 Bielefelder Berlin pattern Skat with advert backs, 'Karo' diamonds with white inner line, c.1965, in plastic wallet, excellent £3

10 Schmid Berlin pattern Skat advertising cigars, c.1970, no box, good, small trace of rubber band on back of AC £2

11 Waddington for the Worshipful Company, 1951, no box, 53 cards, red border (not illustrated), appears to have been used for Pinochle, aces down to nines well used, the others good £6

12 Alf Cooke for Spear & Jackson tools, no box, one joker, c.1960, good £3

13 Düsseldorfer Spielkartenvertrieb modernized Berlin pattern Skat, advertising an insurance company, plastic box, c.1980, Exc £3

14 De La Rue for P&S Ltd, no collar on silhouette ace, no box, c.1964, Excellent £4


15 Waddington for Japurco Menswear, in leather-style padded double box with card-lifting mechanism and outer plain card box, c.1935, Mint £28

16 Waddington Laughing Cavalier from the Old Master series, design number 671, in unusually shaped side slide-in box, 1932-34, unused £10

17 Unknown 48-card tourist pack for Ibiza with miniature Spanish cards in the corners, no box, c.1970? mint £3

18 Piatnik Viennese pattern A, no box, c. 1975, unused £4

19 Atwater Group Hoyle for Holiday Casino, Las Vegas, Stancraft courts, no jokers but two extra cards, box, c.1990, unused £5

20 VSS (East Germany) Berlin pattern Skat for Dujardin, plastic box, c.1980, G+ £2

21 China for Robert Frederick, double box with games booklet, back designs from William Morris, 2007, mint £3

22 Carta Mundi or China for Guinness, oversize cards (9.7 x 6.7 cm) with standard wide courts. The AS and joker are designs used in China, but 'Carta Mundi' is printed in the foliage under the banderole, so it's difficult to be certain where they were made. Box, c.2015, mint £3

23 Müller standard French-suited, 36-card pack, advertising Appenzell cheese and beer, plastic box, c.1970, unused £3

24 Goodall for Harrods, probably for George V's accession/coronation, joker, in Dewar's whisky box, c.1911, mint £40

25 Dal Negro Bergamasche pattern, box, c.1970, mint £3

26 Waddington for British Ropes Ltd, mended box, one joker, c.1960, excellent £2

27 Waddington for Arnott, Young & Co, one joker, no box, c.1952, VG, but creases on 2 pips and JH £1

28 USPCC Enchanting series, bridge-width cards in gilded Art Deco box, 1936, worn gold edges, VG+ except the AD is damaged as shown £4

29 USPCC Regal Series Congress pack, unturned courts, George V backs, gold edges, no joker, damaged box top, c.1911, excellent with a few marks on a few cards, as they seem to have been used for pinochle £30

30 Sloan double-boxed bridge set with Goodall cards, four auction bridge scoring tablets (used), rules for auction bridge in small leather folder, box covered in soft leather, two packs, gold edges, c.1937, VG+ £8

31 24 English or Continental Lottery cards, well-dressed figure on each card, c.1800 or later, FG, three damaged corners £10

32 Dal Negro Neapolitan pattern, box, 1967, mint £3

33 Dondorf Rococo for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, small indices, no box, 1897, good but well used £18

34 De La Rue's version of the named back "Good Night", c.1938. In this version the woman is wearing a see-through, red top; no box, good £8

35 Waddington for Gaymers, litho courts, no box, no joker, c.1980, VG £1

36 Waddington for Pickering, Blackburn, no box, one joker, c.1980, unused £1

37 Carta Mundi for Grant's Whisky, each card depicts a historic poster from 1928 to 1940, two extra cards giving the dates and place of publication for each one, an unusual trapezoid-shaped box that was originally stuck to a bottle, each court has attributes down the margin, c.1985, mint £4

38 Probably China, good quality all-plastic poker pack with unusual AS design, plastic box, 2010, mint £5

39 Waddington for Shaw Savill Line, litho courts, box, c.1968, little used £4

40 Waddington for Shaw Savill Line, litho courts, box, c.1968, little used £4

41 Goodall Linette, De La Rue printing, Ltd and Registered Trademark on AS, c.1928, no box, VG+ £3

42 Goodall Aviators, no box, no joker, no box, c.1905, hardly used £5

43 Goodall, golf backs, no box, no joker, VG+, back of AS slightly faded £4

44 Goodall for Reid's Stout (De La Rue printing), no joker, slide-in box, c.1935, VG+ £10

45 Goodall for the Isle of Man, bottom of the box only (damaged), c.1910, fairly thick card, VG+ £48

46 Modiano Piacentine pattern, box, c.1970, mint £3

47 Masenghini Piacentine pattern, box, c.1970, excellent £3

48 Italcards for Pisa, double box, unusual courts, three jokers, box, c.2000, mint, one pack unopened £10

49 China for Cabo Verde, flag on all courts, maps on all the pip cards, the same for each denomination, one joker, worn box, c.2000, VG+ £1

50 Dondorf Luxury Whist No158, 32 cards, c.1890, no box, good, but two cards slightly creased £15

51 De La Rue 32-crd pack for Schweppes, pneumatic finish, no box, c.1930, KS missing, unused £3


52 De La Rue for Watney Combe Reid & Co, litho printing, c.1965, bottomless box, no jokers, VG £4

53 De La Rue/Goodall Society double box, Art Deco sporting backs: tennis and sailing, Goodall pack has De La Rue joker, De La rue pack has Goodall joker, bridge score cards, box, c.1935, unused, Tennis 7C missing £20

54 De La Rue for DFDS?, a joint ferry service?, slightly damaged slide-in box, joker, c.1950, VG+ £6

55 Waddington for Castella cigars, 4 unopened packs in the original plain delivery carton, c.1963 £10

56 Goodall Beauty series, wide, De La Rue printing, no 'Trademark' on Ltd AS, no box, no joker, c.1923, VG £8

57 De La Rue for the Great Central Railway, gold edges, no joker, slide-in box, c.1908, VG-Exc £35


58 Johnson Bros/Chad Valley Blaze, 15 cards in 4 suits plus a joker, no box, no rules (these are available under Chad Valley on the wopc site), c.1920, VG £12

59 Voitl, Olmütz Four Seasons, tax stamp on 7 of bells, c.1875, plain cardboard box dated 1907, hardly used, tiny knick in the side of one card £85 [SOLD]

60 Russian Monopoly standard version of the Paris pattern, 53 cards, English indices, no box, c.1925, VG, a few creases £28

61 Dondorf Swiss Costume pack, pictorial aces, German indices, box, no tax stamp, c.1900, Excellent £22

62 Müller La Suisse Historique, pictorial aces, regional dress on each court, French indices, joker, flapless box, c.1910, VG+, QD creased £18

63 Goodall for Elder, Dempster & Co., Limd AS, no joker, bottomless slide-in box, c.1910, VG+ £25

64 Merrimack Kate Greenaway pack, pictures on every card, early 20th century back design, box, c.1970, mint £3

65 US Games American Historical pack with historical figures on each card, box with explanatory booklet, 1975, mint £10

66 Intercol Battle of Britain 50 years commemorative pack, illustrations of British aircraft and crew on each card, box, 1989 (for 1990), mint £10

67 ASS Prussian pattern, 32 cards, card box, c.1960, mint £3

68 ASS Bavarian pattern for Schafkopf, 36 cards, plastic box, c.1970, mint £3

69 Goodall for Craven A cigarettes, no box, no joker, c.1930, unused £8

70 Unknown for Dandy Chewing Gum, our Army, pictures on every card, 53 cards, c.1955. These cards were collected one at a time from packets of the gum; it is unusual to find a complete set. Unused £38

71 Stancraft for Barbary Coast casino, corners cut off, no jokers, no box, c.1990, good, well used £2

72 ASS (West Germany) Polit-Poker, aces, courts and jokers have political cartoons, pip cards are standard, plastic box, c.1980, mint £10

73 Copag, Brazil, Sevilha Spanish pack, c.1968, box, mint £6

74 Politicards, American political cartoons on each card, explanatory card, box, 1971, mint £12

75 Worshipful Company double box for 1903, coloured faces, no jokers, slight wear on the box, VG-Exc £100

76 Goodall Scientific Whist, whist leads on every card, no box, c.1895, some cards are slightly discoloured, so they may have been used for piquet or bézique, £28

77 Goodall Rameses Fortune Telling pack, bottomless box, c.1910, good but grubby £12

78 USPCC Revelation Fortune Cards, gold edges, box, leaflet with instructions by Thomas R. Gaines, 1919, unused £35

79 Margary reproduction of Morden's map cards of 1676, box, 1972, unused £10

80 Fournier reproduction of Gibert's historical costume cards of 1850, named figures on kings and queens, tax stamp on 4C, box, 1975, mint £10

81 Waddington Real Canasta cards, double box with tray for holding the discard and stock piles, red and black dot suits only, in tax wrappers with £5 penalty, c.1952, mint, slight scuffs on box £16


82 Astra Games for the National Trust, box, c.1985, unused £2

83 De La Rue Noah's Ark, collecting game, 3 x 17 animal families + Noah card, photocopied rules, bottom half of box, c.1900, very good £8

The following are all singles that can be bought singly or as a complete lot.

S1: 46 back designs by Barribal for Waddington, most from 1925-35, but a few from the re-issues of the 1950s. More detailed information available, if needed. Excellent £2 each or £60 for the lot.

S2: De La Rue singles, c.1880. Good+ £1 each

S3: De La Rue singles, 1890s, VG £1 each

S5 Five Waddington advertising singles, c.1928-35, VG+, except one card damaged as shown £3

S6a/b/c Goodall singles (no courts): (a) c.1870 VG+ £3 each; (b) from the last edition of c.1917, Excellent £5; (c) c.1870 Excellent £1

S7a/b/c/d/e: Five De La Rue singles, 1890s. G-VG+ £1

S8a/b: De La Rue singles, 1880s & 1860s (Holly by Owen Jones), FG-G+ £1 each

S9a/b/c/d/e/f: Goodall singles 1870-1910, G to Exc. £1 each [Backs (b) & (e) have sold out]

S14 Ten Australian advertising backs (extra blue version of bottom left), 1920s-30s, G-VG+ £5

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​I'm Ken Lodge and have been collecting playing cards since I was about eighteen months old (1945). I am also a trained academic, so I can observe and analyze reasonably well. I've applied these analytical techniques over a long period of time to the study of playing cards and have managed to assemble a large amount of information about them, especially those of the standard English pattern. About Ken Lodge →

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