Barribal patience
Waddington’s Patience Cards from the Barribal Series, c.1929.
John Waddington Patience from the Barribal Series, c.1929, featuring an early ace of spades design and joker with attractive artwork on the box. The card on the box doesn’t match the cards within so they must have been swapped. Barribal’s back designs from the 1920s are stylish and chic which some city women try to achieve today.
Above: Waddington’s Patience from the Barribal Series, c.1929.
Above: Waddington’s Patience from English Playing Cards series with a US tax stamp, c.1929. Image: Nandiya.
By Matt Probert
United Kingdom • Member since March 02, 2012
I have adored playing cards since before I was seven years old, and was brought up on packs of Waddington's No 1. As a child I was fascinated by the pictures of the court cards.
Over the next fifty years I was seduced by the artwork in Piatnik's packs and became a collector of playing cards.
Seeking more information about various unidentified packs I discovered the World of Playing Cards website and became an enthusiastic contributor researching and documenting different packs of cards.
I describe my self as a playing card archaeologist, using detective work to identify and date obscure packs of cards discovered in old houses, flea markets and car boot sales.
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