wartime
Atouts de la Vie
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by Simon Wintle
“Atouts de la Vie” wartime card game created by Madame Lucien Willemetz, c.1940.
Prisoners of War
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by Simon Wintle
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.
Churchill in WW2
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by Matt Probert
Churchill ‘Walking with Destiny’ playing cards published by the Imperial War Museum.
Aleister Crowley Tarot – the sombre luminary
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by Simon Wintle
Aleister Crowley Tarot - Crowley and Lady Freda Harris worked on the illustrations between 1938 and 1943
Mayall Press Art Studies
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by Matt Probert
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
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by Matt Probert
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.
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
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by Matt Probert
“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.
Ordnance Recognition
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by Simon Wintle
Ordnance Recognition Playing Cards cards designed to help people at risk from unexploded bombs
Kriegs-Spiel by Peter Schencken, Amsterdam
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by Simon Wintle
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
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by Adam Wintle
A deck of cards inspired by the American Civil War, featuring leaders, army generals, President Abraham Lincoln and other characters from this historical period.
L’union fait la force
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by Rod Starling
“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
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by Rod Starling
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
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by Rod Starling
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
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by Simon Wintle
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
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by Simon Wintle
Black Peter card deck for children printed in Riga during World War II, believed to have been designed by a Latvian artist.
Alfreds Scwedrevitz
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by Simon Wintle
This pack was issued during wartime, in 1936, under the name “Latvian Red Cross Cards No.7”.
War Aid
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by Simon Wintle
Hadsegélyzö Kártya ('War Aid Pack' or 'War Aid Cards') Nr. 63 designed by Leo Kober and first published by Piatnik, Budapest, in 1917.
