De La Rue 1932-1933 Sample Book of Advertising cards

I was very lucky to be able to obtain four rare sample books of playing cards made by Goodall and De La Rue. They originate from the collection of Felix Alfaro Fournier who purchased the archives of the De La Rue factory in a 1980 Southeby's auction. Because these albums are extremely rare and mostly not available to collectors I have decided to put the contents online so that they can be seen by everybody who visits this site. The photos are not professional but should be good enough for most people. I have photographed every relevant page in all four sample books which will be presented here in four seperate galleries. I hope you will enjoy viewing them.

This album holds more than 220 examples of advertising backs printed by De La Rue who took over Goodall in 1922. A label under each page shows the number of printings (i.e. colours) needed to create the coloured back design.

Here are links to the other three sample books:
Goodall Rockleigh 1916 sample book
Goodall 1915-1916 sample book
Goodall 1879-1880 sample book

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Copyright. The contents are published for viewing with the permission of the owner.