Jeu de Familles Les Pierrafeu®
Quartet game featuring The Flintstones and friends.
Les Pierrafeu is the French name for The Flintstones. In this quartet game, there are eight sets of four cards, each set having a different, predominant colour. The titles of the sets translate into English as Furniture, Fred, Cars, The Flintstones, Domestic animals, Fred the sportsman, Family and friends, and Modern appliances. The designs are bold, colourful and attractive. The traditional rules of the game apply – these are given in French on the back of the title card►
Above: Jeu de Familles Les Pierrafeu printed by Carta Mundi, Turnhout, Belgium, 1994. 32 cards + 1 title/rules card in tuck box. Size: 65 x 100 mm. © 1994 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. Licensed by ELG France.
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By Roddy Somerville
Member since May 31, 2022
Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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