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. I'm reducing some of the prices on this list. For purchases, please contact me by e-mail: k.lodge111@btinternet.com

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1 Probably China for Bells Whisky, non-standard courts with hints of English figures, holding bottles or glasses of whisky, four different backs in the same pack, box, 2006, mint £4

2 Masenghini double box, copy of Goodall/De La Rue's prewar wide courts, c.2005, box, hardly used £3 

3 Harper & Co., crude copy of Goodall's Tom Thumb miniature cards, in small holder (not leather), indices marked on each card, c.1920 (London postal districts were given numbers from 1917 onwards), good £5  

4 China for Call 28 King of Phone Card, special kings in different colours, unusual attributes on other courts, unusual jokers, box, c.2004, unused £8

5 Trefl, Krakow, Classic, based on Dondorf's Rhineland pattern with detail differences, especially on the red jacks, decorative aces, back design as used by former East German ASS, box, unopened, mint £5

6 Waddington with Barribal Chartreuse back design (number 108), slide-in box with loose bottom flap, c.1932, gold edges, mint £10

7 Grimaud wide, copy of USPCC US3 courts, advert for Heidsieck champagne on each card, c.1925, no box, excellent £15

8 Goodall, first version of modernized single-figure courts, printed pip cards, c.1855, all-over decorative back of pink sprigs, missing AS, KS & JH, unused £75

9 Berkshire Printing Co., with unusual courts based on Waddington's pre-war designs, c.1935, remains of box, opened tax wrapper, excellent, probably unused £42

10 Masenghini Ramino Cavallino, copy of Goodall pre-war courts, one pack in double box, c.1970, VG+ £4 

11 De La Rue Pneumatic, Goodall courts, decorative backs, no box, c.1925, VG+ £12 

12 Waddington Envoy series, back design 454 The Old Bridge, c.1927, odd diagonal pip arrangement on 7H & 8H, in slightly damaged padded box and opened tax wrapper, mint £8  

13 China for Bigjigs Toys, non-standard child's pack, no jokers (I don't think any were included), box, 2020, mint £4

14 Vereinigte Stralsunder Spielkarten, Feine Frankfurter Spielkarten à la Renaissance, for export to Portugal, Portuguese pictorial aces, 32 cards, c.1885, no wrapper, unused £42

15 Bielefelder Spielkarten for LWC (shipping line?), 32 cards + Gut Blatt extra card in plastic case, gold corners, c.1970, excellent £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 48-card tourist pack for Ibiza with miniature Spanish cards in the corners, no box, c.1970? mint £3

18 Goodall (De La Rue printing) Delesi wide for W H Smith, motorcycle back, c.1923, excellent £5

19 4 casino packs: Atwater Group Hoyle for Holiday Casino, Las Vegas, Stancraft courts, no jokers but two extra cards, box, c.1990, unused; John Sands for Adelaide Casino, holed for security reasons, special jokers, box, dated 1992, excellent; James Hardie Spicer for Burswood Casino, holed, Spicer courts, boxed, special jokers, c.1990, excellent; Stancraft for Barbary Coast casino, corners cut off, no jokers, no box, c.1990, well used £10 

20 Weigel historical costume pack with royal arms on the backs, bottom of box, tax stamp on AH, c.1885, excellent, JS shows slight darkening of half the card £100

21 Goodall Society with Art Deco back design in top-lifting box, no joker, c.1930, and same with named back Cairn, signed by D. Vaughan in box as above in black, slightly damaged hinge, no joker, c.1930 VG £6 

22 Hand-drawn transformation designs on a De La Rue pack of c.1875, no AS, the courts are not transformed, plain yellow backs, excellent £180

23 Masenghini for Andrea mineral water, copy of Goodall courts, 32 + 2 jokers and bridge score card, though there's a 6D instead of the 10D, no box, c.1970, VG £3

24 USPCC Aladdin, a former National CC brand, standard courts, no jokers, no box, 1983, VG £2

25 Speelkaartenfabriek Nederland for a cigarette brand, patience size cards, copy of Goodall courts, monkey joker, no box, c.1950, excellent £10

26 Waddington wide for Guinness, special AS, cross-legged joker, c.1925, in plain, damaged box, VG £15

27 Jaques? quartet game 12 x 4 cards, comic representations of each sign of the Zodiac, no box, c.1875, good but used £28

28 USPCC Enchanting with matching Deco back designs in top slide-in box with metallic finish, no jokers, 1932 (R), VG+ £10

29 Armanino Tarot, 78 cards, flapless box, 1898, excellent £100

30 Goodall Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee non-standard pack with royal dynasties as courts, gold edges, 1897, no box, unused £30

31 Waddington Pretty Lady playing cards, Keighley printing, back design and brand not in John Berry's catalogue, c.1928, box with loose flap, excellent £6

32 China for Lithografia, Edition Panco Carta, unusual redrawing of Arrco courts, box, three jokers, unused, c.2005 £2

33 Peg's Paper Egyptian Fortune Telling cards, 48 cards (no tens, though maybe that was how they were originally), cut-out cards from the magazine, a verse on each back, c.1925, VG £12

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 £6

35  Goodall for Shell motor spirit, no box, c.1910, VG £10

36 De La Rue for Callander Cables, no box, c.1955, VG+ £3 

37 USPCC Renaissance, special AS with Renaissance back design, slightly damaged side slide-in box, c.1925, excellent, hardly used £12 [SOLD]   

38 Chinese money-suited cards, 49 cards, could be from anywhere in S E Asia, c.1910, in small elongated box, VG+ £10

39 Goodall Historic pack, courts from different English royal dynasties, no box, c.1895, unused £30

40 18 menko cards including three duplicates, no box, c.1910, excellent £10

41 Carta Mundi patience pack for Grant's whisky, box, four jokers, c.1980, unopened £2

42 Goodall/De La Rue Prize Medal wide cards, anonymous London AS, not in original box, c.1928, VG+ £4

43 Obchodni Tiskarny Karty, Prague, Casino 240, imported into the UK by Bancroft Partners (misspelled with a 'G' on the box, c.1955, VG+ £4

44 Taiwan patience for Japan Air Lines, copy of USPCC courts in three colours, two jokers, box, c.1970, unused £5

45 De La Rue for Battersby's hats, no jokers, slightly worn box, c.1955, VG+ £2

46 Waddington Canasta set, two packs in worn box, c.1955, cards excellent £3

47 USPCC Congress imported to UK by Sloan, London, named Art Deco back Papillon (butterfly), no joker, side slide-in box with piece missing from outer case, 1929 (L), VG+ £5

48 China for Robert Frederick, copy of Whitman courts, two packs, back designs are a section of a larger painting of dogs playing cards by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge,1903, no box, c.2000, mint £4

49  USPCC double box of Little Duke patience cards in a leather box made for a named London retailer, backs are Dick and fairies with  a fan, c.1900, VG £28

50 Waddington for Mocker, Goodall courts, backs can be read in top left flowers, QD has two white flower centres on her sleeve, c.1962, no box, excellent £3

51 Grimaud Genoese pattern, 32 cards but obviously put together from two such packs, as there are duplicates and a few missing cards including KS, other courts all present, c.1890, in later Italian decorative metal and leather box, unused £5

52 De La Rue for Kendal Milne (Northern store), no joker, no box, c.1930, VG £3 

53 Waddington with Zodiac backs as used in a number of brands such as Linette, no box, c.1965, excellent £2

54 Kristiania Litho Company, historical costume courts, damaged box, c.1895, QS, QD, 9D, AH missing, aces to sevens very good, other cards unused £18

55 Waddington for Castella cigars, 4 unopened packs in the original plain delivery carton, c.1963 £10

56 Goodall Beauty series, wide, De La Rue printing, no 'Trademark' on Ltd AS, no box, no joker, c.1923, VG £8   

57 Hasenauer, Munich, Bavarian pattern, tax stamp no.51, c.1885, no wrapper, unused £75

59 De La Rue for Samuel Jones (Butterfly brand stationery), special AS stating their board was used in the manufacture of the cards, no joker, single pack in double box, silver edges, c.1930, two different types of Q-index, good, probably used for piquet/bézique, as 2s-6s are much cleaner £6 

60 Carta Mundi wide for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, 2022, box, mint £3 (I haven't seen any other celebratory pack for this event.)

61 Chinese? World Courier for a prize draw, 1989. Copy of Waddington's GDW13 with a lot of black on the courts, one joker, a form on the back of each card. An odd pack! Mended box, good, £5

62 USPCC for Mandel Brothers Store, Chicago, in unopened import wrapper in slide-in box, special AS, AH & joker, 1928, mint £58 (Identified from a companion pack with a black back, now sold.)  [SOLD]

63 Waddington for the Spa Hotel, Ripon, near Fountains Abbey, c.1937, box, mint £4  

65 Anonymous Snap, nine comic designs x 4, seemingly to do with gardening, rule card, remains of inner box, c.1920, VG+ £12  

67 De La Rue/Goodall Premier, narrow courts on wide cards, c.1930, damaged box, VG £3 

69 Goodall for Craven A cigarettes, no box, no joker, c.1930, unused £4 

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

72 China wide-size with three-colour US courts, unusual corner indices without pips, 2010, box, mint £3  

73 Piatnik Tudor Rose, double box, c.1970, VG, one corner crease, one horizontal crease, £5

74 Waddington for Harrogate ("Britain's Floral Resort"), double box, no jokers, in plastic box, c.1955, G with QC stained as above £4

75 New York Consolidated Foster's Self-playing Bridge for Mudie, courts US6 with instruction leaflet and two extra advertising cards. A/QS missing. These appeared in 1903, replacing Dougherty's Self-playing Whist cards. There only seems to have been one series, but it was republished in c.1913 with Goodall cards (see item 76). Slightly worn box, VG+ £20

76 Goodall Foster's Self-playing Bridge for Mudie with instruction leaflet and two extra advertising cards, flapless box, c.1913, excellent £32

77 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, £20 

79 USPCC Aristocrat Club Special for Rio Casino, Las Vegas, strangely coloured US7 courts, Russell AS, cartoon head on QH and AH, 'Rio' on 10s to aces, 2000, box, VG+ £8 

80 Waddington for Wills, design 469/1039, worn gold edges, slide-in box, c.1933, VG+ £5

81 Waddington for Wills, design 470/1040, gold edges, slide-in box, c.1933, VG+ £6

82 Waddington for Wills (though possibly sold off after the scheme finished), design 467/1041C Kingfisher, later joker, no box, c.1933, well used £3

84 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 

85 Goodall gaming counters, No. 9918, two boxes with approximately 140 in each (though it says a gross on the box) plus a few extra in one box, c.1920 or earlier, £5

86 Mardon, Son & Hall for Wills, gold edges, 1932-34, remains of top half of box, excellent with one slight crease £5 

88 Waddington Shakespeare double box, reprint of the early 20th century pack, slight wear on corners of box, c.1975, cards mint £8

The following are all singles cards in lots.

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 £50 for the lot.  

S2: 18 single 19th century cards, some backs by Owen Jones, from c.1860-1900, good to excellent £12

S3: Two Goodall advertising wide backs, one for Molson's beer, Montreal, the other for Red Star Line, c.1910, VG+ £3

S4: Seven Waddington advertising singles, c.1928-35, VG+, except one card damaged as shown £2 

S5: Nine single backs from 1890s to 1920. G-VG+ £2

S6 23 single backs from the 20th century including Isle of Man by Valentine (c.1900) and 11 Australian, good to excellent £8