wartime
Luxus Skatkarte Nr.1134
Luxus Skatkarte Nr.1134 printed by Brepols for Germany, c.1940s.

Anma US Armed Forces
Anma US Armed Forces, 1942.

Victory
“Victory" cards celebrating U.S. participation in the Allied victory, c.1945.

Le Jeu de la Guerre
Facsimile of “Le Jeu de la Guerre” designed by Gilles de la Boissière in 1698.

Inspector
Inspector card game published by W F Jackson & Sons, 1940s.

Spy
Spy card game published by Valentine’s Games, c.1915.

Sister Susie Snap
Sister Susie Snap published by Valentine & Sons Ltd, c.1915.

Who’s Who
Who’s Who or Food for Thought, a wartime card game, c.1939.

Atouts de la Vie
“Atouts de la Vie” wartime card game created by Madame Lucien Willemetz, c.1940.

Prisoners of War
Hand-made playing cards by French prisoners of war in Porchester Castle, Hampshire, c.1796.

Safety First
Safety First card game embodying the Kerb Drill, published by John Jaques & Son Ltd, 1940s.

Victory Snap
Wartime Snap, a memoir of past times, c.1941.

World Leaders Snap
World Leaders Snap published around WW2, c.1940.

Wizard of Oz
Wizard of Oz card game published by Pepys, 1940,

Churchill in WW2
Churchill ‘Walking with Destiny’ playing cards published by the Imperial War Museum.

Mapit
“Mapit” war map card game published by Geographia Ltd, 55 Fleet Street, London E.C., c.1940s.

Aleister Crowley Tarot – the sombre luminary
Aleister Crowley Tarot - Crowley and Lady Freda Harris worked on the illustrations between 1938 and 1943

Mayall Press Art Studies
Photographic playing cards - each face having an "art study" of a female nude, Mayall Press, Stockwell, London, c.1946.

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.

Siegfried Line
“We’re Gonna Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line” wartime card game made by William Sessions Ltd, 1940s

Squadron Scramble
“Squadron Scramble” card games for identifying military planes, Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, Wisconsin, 1942.

Temple Press War Planes
“War Planes” playing cards for aircraft recognition published by Temple Press Limited, c.1940.

Victory
“Victory” by Pepys Games, a splendid game with caricatures of British and German leaders, published in 1940.

Vacuation
“Vacuation” published by Pepys games, based on the evacuation of children to Reception Areas in the countryside during WW2, c.1939-40.

Le Jeu des Alliés
“Le Jeu des Alliés” manufactured by Mesmaekers N.V., Turnhout, 1945.

England Expects
‘England Expects’ card game published by Pepys Games in 1940.

Convoy
“Convoy” WW2 card game published by Tree Brand c.1940, based on wartime naval convoys.

N.A.S.A. Aircraft
Lessons of a Widowmaker and Other NASA Aircraft, c.2010.

Film Fantasy
Pepys “Film Fantasy” card game based on MGM’s most popular 1939 film releases, issued just at the time when WW2 began

Première Guerre Mondiale
“Première Guerre Mondiale 1914-1918” playing cards published by Éditions J.C. Dusserre (Maitres Cartiers Boéchat Frères), Paris.

In der Fuehrer’s Face
“In der Fuehrer’s Face” playing cards designed in 1945 by Antonio Arias Bernal, a Mexican artist, but not published until 2002.

Zoom
“Zoom” Airplane card game published by Whitman Publishing Co., Racine, USA, ©1941.

Wartime Snap
Wartime edition of Snap game by an anonymous publisher.

Ordnance Recognition
Ordnance Recognition Playing Cards cards designed to help people at risk from unexploded bombs

They’re Off
“They’re Off” horse racing card game by Pepys, c.1940.

Peter Pan
Peter Pan by Pepys Games, first edition 1939.

Famo
Famo, the historical card game, 1939.

Panda’s Party
Panda’s Party published by Pepys Games, 1940.

Mr Chad
Anonymous ‘Mr Chad’ card game, 1940s.

Kriegs-Spiel by Peter Schencken, Amsterdam
Peter Schencken of Amsterdam copied the "Jeu de la Guerre" or "Das Kriegs-Spiel" (with German captions) originated by Gilles de La Boissière and published by Mariette in 1668 in Paris.

Civil Unrest Playing Cards
A deck of cards inspired by the American Civil War, featuring leaders, army generals, President Abraham Lincoln and other characters from this historical period.

Army & Navy
Andrew Dougherty’s Army & Navy deck from the Civil War era, c.1865.

L’union fait la force
“L’Union Fait la Force”, sometimes known as “the Allied pack”, has the four suits dedicated to the victorious nations of the Second World War.

Submarine Cards
Lighting in submarines involved wearing red goggles to preserve night vision for viewing instrument panels. The goggles solved one problem but created another: the red suits on playing cards were not visible through the red goggles.

WW1 Commemorative
In 1919 Brepols commemorated the victories of World War I with two new packs featuring portraits of Allied leaders on the court cards and famous battle scenes on the Aces.

Anheuser-Busch Army & Navy
This deck is commonly known as the “Anheuser-Busch Spanish-American War deck”, issued at the end of the war.

26th Yankee Division
“26th Yankee Division Playing Cards” was designed by Alban B. Butler, Jr and printed by the Press of the Woolly Whale, New York, in 1933.

Seminole Wars deck by James Y. Humphreys, Philadelphia, c.1819
Court cards from the Seminole Wars deck by J. Y. Humphreys, Philadelphia, c.1819. Ace of Spades from Jazaniah Ford's Decatur deck, 1815. Jazaniah Ford was born in Milton (Massachusetts) in 1757

Black Peter, c.1940
Black Peter card deck for children printed in Riga during World War II, believed to have been designed by a Latvian artist.

Alfreds Scwedrevitz
This pack was issued during wartime, in 1936, under the name “Latvian Red Cross Cards No.7”.

War Aid
Hadsegélyzö Kártya ('War Aid Pack' or 'War Aid Cards') Nr. 63 designed by Leo Kober and first published by Piatnik, Budapest, in 1917.
