Food & Cooking on playing cards
A selection of recipes, diets, food items and advertising appearing on playing cards and educational card games over the decades.
A Barribal variant for Christmas
Christmas gift with a difference, made by Waddington’s, Leeds, 1931.
Albert Heijn’s Boffie Kwartetspel
The “Boffie” Kwartetspel was designed by Huibert Vet and published by Albert Heijn in 1936
Alphabetti Spaghetti
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by Matt Probert
Alphabetti Spaghetti Happy Families game for Crosse & Blackwell c.1978.
Bahía Graf, printers, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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by Simon Wintle
A pack specially designed for a sandwich bar and cake shop. The jokers show a pile of sandwiches.
Baraja de la Cocina Española
A celebration of Spanish gastronomy, with designs by Silja Götz employing non-standard suits.
Bischofszell
Advertising pack for the food producer Bischofszell, designed by Heinz Looser-Brenner, with non-standard suits.
Chocolate playing cards with scenes from World War 1
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by Paul Symons
An extraordinary Spanish pack of chocolate advertising playing cards dating from 1920.
Club Soft Drinks
Promotional pack for Club soft drinks with amusing illustrations of different kinds of ‘club’.
Cow & Gate Happy Family Game
Cow and Gate Happy Family game was issued around 1928 to promote nutrition products.
Deutsche Nutzpflanzen
Deutsche Nutzpflanzen - Quartett game promoting Kali brand crop fertilizer, 1938.
