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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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EPCS February 2001 Newsletter

EPCS February 2001 Newsletter Members Only

Leader: Blackpool • Theme: Butlins, J Cooper • Burton HF: Animal Snap • Jugger: Sorrows of Satan, SY Argonaut • Three Card Mysteries: MH Goodall • Teofani • Act of Union: Doulton, Franklin Special Ace • George Clulow: Peculiar Cards Part 1 • Fergie to Football: A Bird • Pinhead System • Horses in Beer Adverts • Samson Miniature • Member Publications

EPCS February 2002 Newsletter

EPCS February 2002 Newsletter Members Only

Richard Edward • Rorkes Drift - ZULU • Benno • Sir Gurney Benham • Nursery Rhyme & Travel Snap • The Studio Prize Competition • Cavalier Playing Cards • Pepys Quiz - Answers • Rummy Soccer • Spear's New Games 1894 • Big Box Card Games • Astra • Religious Cards • Game Scorers & Trump Indicators • Goodall & Willis January 1880 • Card Donation • L.G. Sloan & Universal • Frustrating Bridge Hand • Fables • Poets of the Card Table • Animal Snap - Revisited

EPCS February 2003 Newsletter

EPCS February 2003 Newsletter Members Only

Waddington Catalogue • Poets at the Card Table • Hindooy • White Witchcraft • New Transformation Cards • Cavalier Cards • See-through Pack • James Bond 007 • West Piggy Bank • Millennium Dome Souvenir • Fassett No-Revoke Pack • Zodiac Pack • Romany Fortune Telling Book • Decorative Items • Plastic Cards DLR • Picasso & Waddington • Cards, Words & Music • Rhyme Without Reason • Patience Books • PAK & Sovereign Guardsman • Imitation Goodall • William Mitchell (Brewer)

EPCS February 2004 Newsletter

EPCS February 2004 Newsletter Members Only

Plucking the Goose • Lake District • Blanche Handler • Moods And Faces • Nelson Bicentenary - Worshipful • Face Card Lithography • The Power Deck • Grand Slam • Buying and Selling on Internet • Nederland Shipping Line • Netley Abbey & Castle • WCMPC Ephemera • Irish Heroic Pack • Card Sharpers And Their Work • Golf • Orchestra Cards • Stationer Adverts • De La Rue’s Works • Burlesque Heraldry & Earl of Stair • Gardening Snap • Cutler’s Trust • Military Manoeuvres

EPCS February 2023 Newsletter

EPCS February 2023 Newsletter Members Only

Transformation • Neil Darbyshire • Eminent Victorians • Lobo London Underground • One Shilling • Queen of Hearts • WCMPC 2022-23 • Art of the Playing Card Maker Jigsaws • Dublin Cardmaking Dynasty • Winstanley Jack of Clubs Greenlanders • Historical Pope Joan • Quit • Jaques One Shilling Games

EPCS February 2024 Newsletter

EPCS February 2024 Newsletter Members Only

Lenthall's Delightful Cards • Cards supposedly by Wheeler • No, It Isn't an Early Wheeler • Chloe Campbell's Wren Cards • Speed: the Motor Cards • “Melox” Happy Families • Playing Cards for the Pegu Club • Military Card Backs • The Worshipful Company • Cards 2023-24 • The Blitz and Wartime Card Production in Britain • Henry Reason's Game of Parliament • Aesop's Fables

EPCS Febuary 1988 Newsletter

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 January 1985 Newsletter

EPCS January 1985 Newsletter Members Only

The Jack of Diamonds • The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards • Beautiful Britain (part two) • Shaw Savill Shipping • Sporting Card Games Part I: Rugby Union • The 1934 Test Series • Ephemera • Two Packs by Thomas Creswick

EPCS January 1986 Newsletter

EPCS January 1986 Newsletter Members Only

The Jack of Spades (The English Court: part 12) • Hoover Company pack • Goodall: Victor E. Mauger: International Card Company • A Collecting Theme: Birds Part 1 • Non-standard arrangement of suitmarks on pip cards • The Game of Heartsett • Owen Jones - Onoto - Pass and Joyce Ltd • Mardon Son & Hall

EPCS July 1984 Newsletter

EPCS July 1984 Newsletter Members Only

The Jack of Clubs (The English Court: Part 1) • Happy Families • London Cries • An Exciting Discovery

EPCS June 2000 Newsletter

EPCS June 2000 Newsletter Members Only

King of Hearts: Sadaam Hussein • 60th Anniversary Tribute • Stories & Legends of Cards • Nursery Rhyme SNAP by TWEE TOYS • Bystander 1913: Suits • Scottish Tartans • Queen Victoria in Ireland • A&A Adams Carriage • Hand-Drawn Victorian Families • SNAP: Millennium Project • Charles Gibson: Card Manufacturers • PUNCH 1965: Personalized Cards • Alick Mullord: Game Worth • Loyalist Cigarettes: Barribal • Chesterfield Tube: New Designs • Dan Dare: 50 Years • Sunday Times Anniversary • Non-Standard Ace Packs • New Issues: Various Themes • Bears-CD ROM Project • Peerless Playing Card Company

EPCS June 2001 Newsletter

EPCS June 2001 Newsletter Members Only

Rare Universal Joker • Great Exhibition 50th Anniversary • Queen Victoria Death • Another Animal Snap • Featured Deck: Reynolds Fortune Telling • Advertising & Cards • Domino Cards • Tate & Lyle Story • Sir Donald Bradman • Peculiar Cards • Game Counters • Poets at Card Table • Pinhead Method • New Royal Mail Issue • New Heritage Issues • Lecardo

EPCS June 2002 Newsletter

EPCS June 2002 Newsletter Members Only

Golden Jubilee • Willis & Woolley 1876 • Happy Families - Music Sheet • Samson - Stanley Matthews • Cadbury Snap • Robinson • Poets at the Card Table/What's in the Box? • Harry Ferguson Ltd • Woolley Circular Cards • Historical Dominoes • Johnson's Toilet Powder • Cavalier Playing Cards • Bits from John and Clive • The 52 Club • Brewery Playing Cards • Help! / Samuel Pepys • Astra • Alfred Marks • Egyptian Fortune Telling

EPCS June 2003 Newsletter

EPCS June 2003 Newsletter Members Only

Museum Piece • King Richard Game • Waddington Catalogue 1975-6 • Worshipful 2002 • Shell Happy Motorists • Cambridge Crested Backs • Trump Indicators • Sugar Mystic Tarot • La Traviate - Erte • Facsimiles - Henry Margary • I Am • Rare South African Cards • The Secret of Life • Card On Cards • Little Boxes • More Tea • Smash Hits • Other Uses • Iraqi Most Wanted • Alternative Most Wanted/Poets at the Table

EPCS June 2004 Newsletter

EPCS June 2004 Newsletter Members Only

The Waddington Collection 1979 • Frank Sutcliffe • Yorks & Humberside • Constable • American War of Independence • Harris Museum • Stopforth • Hunt • Card & Coaster Set • Health Exhibition 1884 • Student Showcase • Birkenhead Patience • Shrubhill Pipet • Queries London c1820 • Kaplan Auction • Orient Express • Worshipful Query • Lucky Fortune-Telling Cards • Ephemera • Open Golf &

EPCS June 2022 Newsletter

EPCS June 2022 Newsletter

This is a free sample of the EPCS Newsletter. This issue contains the following: Silk Cut • Secretary's Notes/Editorial/Feedback • Brian Hinxman • Wrapper Query • Michael Goodall Obituary • Norwegian Pack • Old Character Cards • The Thailand Playing Card Monopoly • Waddington Promotional Material • Lynx Dry • Tringham • The Dread Pirate Roberts • The Hinxman File on Wages • The Beginning of Happy Families • Winstanley 10 of Clubs • Finnish Pack - Pelikortteja • Epic Scenes from the Old Testament

EPCS June 2023 Newsletter

EPCS June 2023 Newsletter Members Only

Coronation • Who Were Rowley & Co. • Research Archives by WCMPC • Winstanley Queen of Clubs • Kirk's London Cries Revisited • Pub Quiz Snap • Street Cries Snap • Jarvis Porter • Ogilvy Game • Precedence • Rock Brothers and Pope Joan • A Fight Between Cardmakers • Brexit - the Real Deal • A French Mystery • Crown the Queen • Transformation Cards

EPCS March 1984 Newsletter

EPCS March 1984 Newsletter Members Only

The King of Clubs • Bancks Bros. Card Maker's Bond 1855 • Why do we call a Spade a Spade? • Exportation Ace 1828-1862 • Shakespeare as a Theme • Pneumatic Cards

EPCS March 1985 Newsletter

EPCS March 1985 Newsletter Members Only

Bendigo Easter Fair • Beautiful Britain (part three) • The Popish Plot (part one) • The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards (part two) • Nursery Rhymes • The King of Hearts • J.S. Fry & Sons Advertising Packs • Sporting Card Games Part II: Association Football • Ephemera • List of Games by C.W. Faulkner

EPCS March 1986 Newsletter

EPCS March 1986 Newsletter Members Only

A Collecting Theme: Birds part 2 • Beautiful Britain (additional information) • Clan Tartan cards • Mardon Son & Hall • The Daily Sketch War Fund pack • Overprint Champagne Advertising packs • Musical Card Games • Children's Card Games: Pepys Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs • Hobby Horse playing cards