Kids Fun Box playing cards
Colourful cards for children with four non-standard suits connected with the natural world.
Sometimes, in order to obtain an interesting pack of cards, it is necessary to buy a larger, boxed set of games or perhaps a book. The cards shown here were never sold separately but rather as part of a bumper pack of games and puzzles. The black suits are tadpoles and birds’ eggs, while starfish and ladybirds can be found on the red ones. The court cards and Jokers represent amphibians, birds, sea creatures and insects, all depicted light-heartedly and colourfully in a manner designed to appeal to children. The target audience for this boxed set was kids aged 4 to 7 • see the outer box
Above: Kids Fun Box playing cards published by Paul Lamond Games, London, UK, 1991. Made in China. 52 cards + 4 Jokers + patience rules in drop-lid box. Size: 55 x 88 mm. Part of a large boxed set also containing an animal colouring book, a Dot & Spot picture book, 18 colouring postcards, a 25-piece jigsaw puzzle, a 56-card match two floor game, 5 animal frieze puzzles, a 35-piece square puzzle, and 8 non-toxic crayons.
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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