Hot Stuff
The key card for the game of: Robert le Diable: Jeu des Mariages. France, circa 1820.
Q&A
Simple question; complicated answer.
From an unidentified card game from France, circa 1860s.
Tart, Lobster, and Pickle Herring
Playing cards from a deck of “carving cards” printed by Joseph Moxon in London, circa 1680.
Jeu des 7 Grandes Routes
Images of a 1956 card game tracing the major automobile routes around France.
Published by Editions Willeb and brought to you by the folks at British Petroleum.
The Jumble Club
The records of The Jumble Club, a group dedicated to playing whist (and *only* whist) which thrived in Glasgow, Scotland, approximately between 1799 and 1877.
The records consist of 4 ledgers containing minutes of meetings, with additional meeting minutes, inventories, insurance policy, checkbook. flyers and other related papers and ephemera.
And they came in a lovely metal coffer, complete with a set of keys, none of which fit the box lock.
Prison playing cards
A selection of handmade and delicately stencil-printed playing cards,
made by inmates of Russian prisons, ca. 1980s - 1990s.
Playing Card sample book (Irish Free State)
Another sample book, for cards produced in, and proudly representing, the Irish Free State, ca. 1936.
Playing Card sample book (Germany)
A saleman’s sample book for a line of playing cards produced in Northern Germany, circa the early 1950s.
dos a dos a dos a dos a dos a dos a dos a dos
Back patterns for American playing cards
(from the Cary Collection)
USA3
USA167
USA10
USA9
USA21
USA6
USA2
USA7
There’s a moon in the sky.
It’s called the moon.
ASTRONOMIA [card game] / LONDON / PUBLISHED BY F.G. MOON,
20, THREADNEEDLE STREET / 1829
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