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Playing cards first arrived in England during the 15th century, but none have survived from such an early date.

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Dickens Character Collection

Dickens Character Collection

Dickens Character Collection published for a London Casino as a promotional gift.

Dickens Snap

Dickens Snap

Dickens Snap, c.1890.

Disability Daily

Disability Daily

Disability Daily playing cards designed by Tamasin Cole.

Disney playing cards (Waddingtons) 1993

Disney playing cards (Waddingtons)

Four of the stock Disney characters on a pack from Waddingtons.

District Messenger 1900

District Messenger

District Messengers were uniformed young men wearing little pill-box hats and mounted on bicycles who fulfilled urgent tasks and were paid by the mile

Doctor Who 2015

Doctor Who

Doctor Who fan cards produced by Winning Moves under the Waddington's label, 2015.

Domestic Economy 1899

Domestic Economy

Domestic Economy published by Faulkner & Co, c.1899.

Don’t come back

Don’t come back

“Don’t come back” playing cards produced by Hounslow NHS Primary Care Trust and Feltham Young Offender’s Institution, United Kingdom

Donald’s Circular Snap 1951

Donald’s Circular Snap

Donald’s Circular Snap published by Pepys, 1951.

Donkey

Donkey

Donkey card game by Chiefton Products Ltd of Bristol, c.1950s.

Donkey 1955

Donkey

Donkey card game published by Clifford Toys, c.1955.

Dorset Dialect Trails 2015

Dorset Dialect Trails

‘Dorset Dialect Trails’ playing cards, United Kingdom, 2015.

Dr Ken Lodge

Dr Ken Lodge

​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.

Dr Who 2005

Dr Who

Dr Who is a long-running science-fiction television series produced by the BBC, first airing in 1963.

Dr Who Adventures 2006

Dr Who Adventures

‘Doctor Who Adventures’ is a weekly magazine aimed at younger readers. From time to time free playing cards are included with the magazine

Draughts League Medals

Draughts League Medals

Arthur Charles Prince worked for De la Rue as a playing card cutter and later was promoted to supervisor of a small team of workers of same until his death aged 50.

Drownin’ Surfer

Drownin’ Surfer

Drownin’ Surfer card game

Dumbo 1939

Dumbo

Walt Disney’s Dumbo card game published by Pepys, 1939.

Dundas & Wilson Deal Winners 2012

Dundas & Wilson Deal Winners

“Deal Winners” promotional pack for Dundas & Wilson law firm.

Dutch Court playing cards 1999

Dutch Court playing cards

Games & Print Services’ version of the Dutch pattern.