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Waddy Productions

Waddy Productions

Waddy Productions Ltd was a member of the giant Amalgamated Press group and only published card games for a short period in the 1930s.

Mauclair Dacier Familles

Mauclair Dacier Familles

This “Jeu de Sept Familles” was produced by Mauclair Dacier in the late 19th century.

Grand Jeu Lenormand

Grand Jeu Lenormand

A pack of 54 playing-cards for fortune-telling each card containing a number of zodiacal, classical and modern images with a miniature card of the conventional type at top left and a letter of the alphabet at top right.

Nederlandsche Oliefabriek

Nederlandsche Oliefabriek

This beautiful quartet game from Holland illustrates the strange life cycle of the peanut.

Swiss Costumes

Swiss Costumes

Wüst's Swiss Cantons souvenir deck was published in Frankfurt in c.1875 for the emerging tourist market.

Daveluy

Daveluy

Daveluy produced card games between c.1840 and 1890. Many of his playing cards are in neo-medieval style with landscape backgrounds.

Première Croisade

Première Croisade

Deck evoking the ‘Première Croisade’ with single-ended courts by Daveluy, Bruges, c.1850.

Moyen-Age by Daveluy

Moyen-Age by Daveluy

Cartes Moyen-Age by Daveluy, Bruges, c.1875.

Caught in a Trap

Caught in a Trap

A Victorian card game telling a story of a victim being ensnared in a trap, being caught, and finally escaping.

The Great Galumphus

The Great Galumphus

The “Great Galumphus” card game from the 1920s shows various comic animals with their names printed alongside, designed by Miss Jessie Veal.

Cartomancia Astrología Quirologia Tests

Cartomancia Astrología Quirologia Tests

A set of rather unusual and non-standard cartomancy cards from Argentina with religious connotations and imaginative artwork

Old Bavarian pattern

Old Bavarian pattern

Uncut sheets of playing cards of the Old Bavarian pattern by Michael Schatzberger, Passau, c.1780.

Hodges’ Constellations

Hodges’ Constellations

Hodges’ pack dealing with astronomy had numeral cards carrying diagrams of constellations and their pictorial representations.

Bodegas Trapiche

Bodegas Trapiche

Promotional playing cards produced for Bodegas Trapiche, designed to play Quartet games by collecting a wine bottle card with four matching glasses.

Jewish Card Game

Jewish Card Game

Judaism is the oldest of the great monotheist religions, parent of Christianity and Islam.

XV Century Catalan playing cards

XV Century Catalan playing cards

XV Century Catalan Playing Cards, featuring four female Sotas, four Aces and four cards from the suit of batons.

Naipes Merlín

Naipes Merlín

“Naipes Merlín” produced by Kit Produccion y Diseño S.A., Argentina.

Parksons

Parksons

Parker & Sons was launched in 1955 by Mr. Parker

Paparazzi Pin-up Deck

Paparazzi Pin-up Deck

Pin-up deck given free with Paparazzi magazine, 2005