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Miniature Playing Cards from around the world.
Miniature Playing Cards
Miniature Playing Cards from around the world.

Bone Playing Cards
My late mother found these miniature cards in a skip around 50 years ago.

Panto People
Panto People published by E. S. & A. Robinson, c.1930s.

Hats-Off!
Hats-Off! miniature card game published by E. S. & A. Robinson, c.1930s.

Zoo-Boots
Zoo-Boots published by E. S. & A. Robinson, c.1930s.

Gibbs Happy Families
Gibbs Happy Families card game promotion, both full sized and miniature versions, c.1946.

Lever Brothers miniatures
Two miniature card games promoting Vim Scouring Powder and Sunshine Soap, 1930s.

Patience Cards and their Boxes
Patience Cards and their Boxes by Tony Hall.

Spider Solitaire
Spider Solitaire is a free web site offering new versions of the classic solitaire card game

Barribal patience
Waddington’s Patience Cards from the Barribal Series, c.1929.

Hansa-Karte
Bechstein design reprinted by Vereinigte Stralsunder Spielkartenfabriken AG former Schneider & Co., c1925.

Bucktrout & Co. Ltd
Half-sized cigarette playing cards published by Bucktrout & Co., Ltd (Guernsey) c.1930.

Tesseract Mobile Solitaire Games
Tesseract Mobile’s new Solitaire card games for Android devices features dynamic playing cards that change style...

Prince of Wales National Relief Fund 1914
A two-pack patience set produced by Thomas De la Rue on behalf of the Prince of Wales National Relief Fund in 1914.

Piccadilly Patience
Piccadilly Patience by Piatnik, c.1955

Nestlé ‘Happy Families’
‘Happy Families’ published by Nestlé in 1935.

F. X. Schmid Mini-Patience
Miniature Patience playing cards in Rococo style published by F. X. Schmid, c.1960

British American Tobacco patience
Patience deck for British American Tobacco printed by Speelkaartenfabriek Nederland c.1940

Magic Poker Cards
“Magic Poker Cards” are often found inside Christmas crackers along with party hats, puzzles and jokes...

Permalon Ltd
Miniature playing cards advertising "Perma" smoking-related products featuring the "Perma Girl" on the backs and Joker.

Czech Patience Cards
Patience size playing cards published by Obchodni Tiskarny of Prague, under the brand “Casino”, with cartoon courts in the style of wood engravings.

Miniature Disney deck
Mickey Mouse card game is part of a promotion for Rübezahl Schokoladen GmbH (Germany).

Wills Scheme
The W.D & H.O. Wills Playing Card promotion of the early 1930s

Billiken Minicartas
Children’s toy cards published in Argentina by Editorial Atlántida in the magazine “Billiken”, 1964.

Collecting Playing Cards
How I began Collecting Playing Cards by Robert S. Lancaster

Goodall & Son’s Patience & Miniature packs
Goodall & Son’s Patience & Miniature packs came in various styles of box and back design, c.1890-1930.

Modiano Patience
Patience cards published by Modiano, c.1945.

Carte per Signora
“Carte per Signora” patience pack was produced by Fratelli Armanino, Genova, in c.1897.

Birkel Schwarzer Peter
The Birkel company has produced several promotional “Schwarzer Peter” packs over the years and this one is themed on the circus.

Pop Rocky
“Pop Rocky” miniature playing cards with double-ended caricatures of celebrities and pop stars, originally published inside a magazine, c.1970.

Kamarát Toy Cards
Kamarát miniature toy playing cards from Czechoslovakia.

Fabrica de Cigarrillos Roldan y Cia, Lima, Peru
The design of the figures is very agile with excellent colour harmony and execution.

Wüst Oval Patience
C. L. Wüst Oval Patience Karten No. 240, beautifully printed by chromolithography, c.1910.

Einar Nerman Patience
Einar Nerman (1888–1983) was a talented Swedish artist born in Norrköping who designed playing cards during the 1920s.

Lettische Patience
Karl enjoyed experimenting with design and production and this work was published in 1994 as a 32-card pack with one joker. The double-ended courts are, by Gerich's standards, plain with simple costume designs based on the designs of Arturs Duburs.

Cartes Turques Patience
Derived from “Cartes Turques” first made by Glanz, then later by van Genechten, Brepols & Piatnik. 3 double-ended dragon Aces and one Adam/Eve Ace with a coiled serpent.

Patience Indien
Karl Gerich's “Patience Indien No.16”, published in 1991, is adapted from Grimaud's “Whist Indienne” (c.1900). The double-ended courts are dressed in Arab garb.

Patience No.21
‘Patience No.21’ is a 52-card miniature deck with double-ended courts and a Joker holding a fan of cards.

Four Continents Patience
Dondorf's 'Four Continents' Patience, c.1910.

Kinder-Karte
First published in c.1870, children are presented in these miniature Patience cards disguised as Kings, Queens and Jacks. The Kings' crowns are slightly over-sized for their heads and the children are wearing false beards.

Mini-Poker
Mini-Poker miniature playing cards made in China.

Clifford Toys
Clifford Toys is a brand name of F. Levy & Co., Ltd, London, sellers of toys and fancy goods.

Pigmy Playing Cards
Pigmy Miniature Playing Cards

Minnie Patience
Minnie Patience. The backs show images of Mickey & Minnie mouse dancing together.

Anonymous Novelty Cards
Miniature novelty playing cards from the late 1940s or early 1950s with a charm of their own. Probably published as small prizes at fairground or seaside amusement arcades.

Swiss Album patience
Swiss Album patience cards manufactured by C. L. Wüst (Frankfurt), c.1900, with a different landscape on the reverse of each card. The court cards depict costumed figures along with shields from the cantons.

Miniature Playing Cards
Crudely printed miniature children's packs produced anonymously in c.1920-30.

Cigarette Cards and other ephemera
Cigarette Cards, Trade Cards, Miniature Playing Cards and other ephemera.

Miniature Playing Cards
Miniature Playing Cards from around the world.

Baraja Hoja de Afeitar
La Baraja 'Hoja de Afeitar'. Baraja de Hojas Maravilla descalificadas como de primerísima categoría.

Self-Nurturing Solitaire
Self-Nurturing Solitaire by Idelle Jones,

Naipes tamaño Mignon, La Cubana, S.A.
Naipes tamaño Mignon, La Cubana, S.A. (Fabrica de Naipes El Aguila), Mexico, c.1960.
