Collectors’ Playing Cards for Sale

I TRY TO PUT REASONABLE PRICES ON WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER; COMPARE THEM WITH eBAY AND OTHER INTERNET SELLERS. I change the items from time to time and remove some of the unsold ones; if you saw something on an earlier list and it's no longer there, it might be worth asking whether I still have it. For purchases, please contact me by e-mail: k.lodge111@btinternet.com

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CARD BOXES

The following are card boxes with no cards:

B1 Lacquer box with five internal compartments, c.1870-80, small chips to surface and discolouration to the lid, £40

B2 Nain-Jaune box with separable trays and coloured counters, dated in hand-writing as a birthday gift 7th August 1909, good condition, £58

B3 Unusual polished box with coromandel veneer, brass straps and agate inserts, brass key and lock, counters, markers and draughts (no board) inside and very unusual, removable oval gilded brass scoreboards for bézique and cribbage, by Betjeman of London, c.1870, excellent condition. Offers around £500.

CARDS

1 Waddington for Wiggins Teape, the same figure for each suit (KD/QS/JH) in different colours, slogans on each ace, no box, c.1965, mint £12

2 Masenghini double box, copy of Goodall/De La Rue's prewar wide courts, c.2005, box, hardly used £6

3 Non-standard design for Talking Tables, all courts depict Victorian trapeze artists, double box with matching backs, one-way pip cards, odd arrangement on nines. Rule cards for five card games. Printed in China. c.2020 Mint £8

4 USPCC De Luxe, bridge width, (a) 1963; (b) different joker, 1966, excellent £2 each

5 Waddington for Star cigarettes, c.1938, no box, not joker, excellent £5

6 Piatnik Dante & Beatrice non-standard pack with pictorial aces (Italian scenes) and courts representing characters from Dante's work, Italian tax stamp for 1923, in a leather upright box with small gold inlay design round the edge, joker and extra cards, worn gold edges, VG+ £150

7 China for UK TV show 'Play your card right', Arrco courts, Bruce Forsyth on the backs, no box, no jokers, c.1995, VG £2

8 Bielefelder Berlin pattern Skat with agricultural advert on backs, plastic box, c.1960, VG £2

9 Bielefelder Berlin pattern Skat with advert backs, 'Karo' diamonds with white inner line, c.1965, in plastic wallet, excellent £3

10 Schmid Berlin pattern Skat advertising cigars, c.1970, no box, good, small trace of rubber band on back of AC £2

11 Waddington for the Worshipful Company, 1951, no box, 53 cards, red border (not illustrated), appears to have been used for Pinochle, aces down to nines well used, the others good £6

12 Alf Cooke for Spear & Jackson tools, no box, one joker, c.1960, good £3

13 Düsseldorfer Spielkartenvertrieb modernized Berlin pattern Skat, advertising an insurance company, plastic box, c.1980, Exc £3

14 De La Rue for P&S Ltd, no collar on silhouette ace, no box, c.1964, Excellent £4

15 China for Terry O'Neill, USPCC heart courts used for all suits, plain AS, photos on back and box, 2011, mint £4

16 Waddington Laughing Cavalier from the Old Master series, design number 671, in unusually shaped side slide-in box, 1932-34, unused £10

17 Unknown tourist pack for Ibiza with miniature cards in the corners using Goodall courts, no box, c.1970? mint £3

18 Piatnik Viennese pattern A, no box, c. 1975, unused £4

19 Dal Negro Piacentine pattern, box, 1971, mint £3

20 VSS (East Germany) Berlin pattern Skat for Dujardin, plastic box, c.1980, G+ £2

21 China for Robert Frederick, double box with games booklet, back designs from William Morris, 2007, mint £3

22 Carta Mundi or China for Guinness, oversize cards (9.7 x 6.7 cm) with standard wide courts. The AS and joker are designs used in China, but 'Carta Mundi' is printed in the foliage under the banderole, so it's difficult to be certain where they were made. Box, c.2015, mint £3

23 Waddington for Fenner drive belts, matching packs in leather folding case, one joker in each pack, c.1955, G+ £3

24 Waddington for Chase, litho courts, c.1985, unused taken from torn cellophane wrapper, slight mark on the side of a few cards £2

25 Dal Negro Bergamasche pattern, box, c.1970, mint £3

26 Waddington barrel-shaped pack for William Mills, Wednesbury, no box, joker, c.1950, unused £3

27 Waddington for Arnott, Young & Co, one joker, no box, c.1952, VG, but creases on 2 pips and JH £1

28 Halkali, Istanbul Genoese pattern with English indices and French pip arrangements, box, c.1980, VG+ £3 [SOLD]

29 China for Ireland, unusual copy of US4 courts by USPCC with faces drawn in the style of modern US poker cards, c.1990, box, excellent £2

30 Dal Negro Florentine pattern, box, c.1970, Excellent £3 [SOLD]

31 24 English or Continental Lottery cards, well-dressed figure on each card, c.1800 or later, FG, three damaged corners £10

32 Dal Negro Neapolitan pattern, box, 1967, mint £3

33 China SP The Lord of the Cards, all gold, metal finish, I Love Greece, bought in Crete, metallic box, 2019, mint £3

34 De La Rue's version of the named back "Good Night", c.1938. In this version the woman is wearing a see-through, red top; no box, good £8

35 Waddington for Gaymers, litho courts, no box, no joker, c.1980, VG £1

36 Dal Negro Sicilian pattern, box, 1970, mint £3

37 Unknown (possibly Carta Mundi) for Grant's Whisky, each card depicts a historic poster from 1928 to 1940, two extra cards giving the dates and place of publication for each one, an unusual trapezoid-shaped box that was originally stuck to a bottle, each court has attributes down the margin, c.1985, mint £4

38 Probably China, good quality all-plastic poker pack with unusual AS design, plastic box, 2010, mint £5

39 Waddington for Shaw Savill Line, litho courts, box, c.1968, little used £4

40 Waddington for Shaw Savill Line, litho courts, box, c.1968, little used £4

41 Goodall Linette, De La Rue printing, Ltd and Registered Trademark on AS, c.1928, no box, VG+ £3

45 Goodall for the Isle of Man, bottom of the box only (damaged), c.1910, fairly thick card, VG+ £48

46 Modiano Piacentine pattern, box, c.1970, mint £3

47 Masenghini Piacentine pattern, box, c.1970, excellent £3

48 Italcards for Pisa, double box, unusual courts, three jokers, box, c.2000, mint, one pack unopened £10

49 China for Cabo Verde, flag on all courts, maps on all the pip cards, the same for each denomination, one joker, worn box, c.2000, VG+ £1

50 Hong Kong for Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977, double box without lid, mint, one pack unopened £2

52 De La Rue for Watney Combe Reid & Co, litho printing, c.1965, bottomless box, no jokers, VG £4

53 De La Rue for Orient Line, no joker, c.1950, flapless box, VG £5

54 De La Rue for DFDS?, a joint ferry service?, slightly damaged slide-in box, joker, c.1950, VG+ £6

58 Johnson Bros/Chad Valley Blaze, 15 cards in 4 suits plus a joker, no box, no rules (these are available under Chad Valley on the wopc site), c.1920, VG £15

66 ASS Prussian pattern, 32 cards, card box, c.1960, mint £3

68 ASS Bavarian pattern for Schafkopf, 36 cards, plastic box, c.1970, mint £3

69 ASS Political Tarock, non-standard cartoons of German political figures (all men!), plastic box, 1976, mint £8 [SOLD]

71 Stancraft for Barbary Coast casino, corners cut off, no jokers, no box, c.1990, good, well used £2

73 Copag, Brazil, Sevilha Spanish pack, c.1968, box, mint £6

77 De La Rue for Kendrick & Jefferson, Goodall courts, gold edges, slide-in box (grubby), mint £5

113 Goodall Scientific Whist, whist leads on every card, no box, c.1895, some cards are slightly discoloured, so they may have been used for piquet or bézique, £28

123 Astra Games for the National Trust, box, c.1985, unused £2

125 De La Rue Noah's Ark, collecting game, 3 x 17 animal families + Noah card, photocopied rules, bottom half of box, c.1900, very good £8

The following are all singles that can be bought singly or as a complete lot.

S1: 46 back designs by Barribal for Waddington, most from 1925-35, but a few from the re-issues of the 1950s. More detailed information available, if needed. Excellent £2 each or £60 for the lot.

S2: De La Rue singles, c.1880. Good+ £2 each

S3: De La Rue singles, 1890s, VG £1 each

S4 Fifteen US advertising backs, c.1910-44, including Independent Order of Oddfellows, FG-Exc £10

S5 Five Waddington advertising singles, c.1928-35, VG+, except one card damaged as shown £3

S6a/b/c Goodall singles (no courts): (a) c.1870 VG+ £3 each; (b) from the last edition of c.1917, Excellent £5; (c) c.1870 Excellent £2

S7a/b/c/d/e: Five De La Rue singles, 1890s. G-VG+ £2

S8a/b: De La Rue singles, 1880s & 1860s (Holly by Owen Jones), FG-G+ £2 each

S9a/b/c/d/e/f: Goodall singles 1870-1910, G to Exc. £1 each [Backs (b) & (e) have sold out]

S10 Nine Belgian advert backs, 1930s, VG £3

S11 Eight US railway adverts + one from South Africa, 1930s-40s, VG+ £4

S12 Nine US Art Deco back designs, 1920s-30s, G-VG £4

S13 36 US wide backs by USPCC, Arrco, Russell, NYCC & Dougherty, c.1910-35, VG+ £6

S14 Ten Australian advertising backs (extra blue version of bottom left), 1920s-30s, G-VG+ £6

S16 36 Universal backs from 1925-40, Worn to Excellent £3

18 Ten USPCC pictorial backs, some named, as above plus one of Sentinel Rock, c.1908-20, VG £6

S19 36 US Art Deco backs by various makers from the 1920's and 30's, G-Exc £10

S20 Two cards for "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?", one by De La Rue (left), the other by Whitman, c.1935, VG £1

S21 Five backs with swastikas for good luck, three American and two English, c.1920-35, VG £3

S22 De La Rue & Goodall adverts, c.1915-35, F-VG+ £3

S23 35 decorative backs mostly by USPCC, c.1910-38, G-VG+ £5