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AN EDWARDIAN SILVER PLAYING CARD BOX with hinged lid enamelled `Bridge`, 6" wide, London 1904.

AN EDWARDIAN SILVER PLAYING CARD BOX, square with domed hinged lid, 2" high and containing two packs of cards, Birmingham 1901.

A collection of cigarette cards, comprising 24 Salmon & Gluckstein ‘Heroes of the Transvaal War’, 18 Players ‘Military Series’ and 11 Ogdens Military with playing card inset.

A pair of silver and green leather playing card cases decorated to the lids with Regal monograms (4.25 inches).

A quantity of bone including a bracelet with playing card decoration and trinket box with brass mounts etc.

BRITTEN BENJAMIN: (1913-1976) English Composer. Brief T.L.S., Benjamin Britten, with holograph salutation, on one side of his personal correspondence card, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, n.d., to Dr. [Ben] Braude, thanking him for his kind message. Together with a small selection of T.Ls.S. and signed photographs of various sizes by other classical musicians and singers comprising Artur Rubinstein (T.L.S. with interesting content regarding his appearance in a motion picture, `it was made hap-hazard.....even my playing was mostly improvised and never prepared`), Eugene Ormandy (2), Rosa Ponselle and Mischa Elman (vintage signed and inscribed sepia 7 x 9 photograph). Laid down (1), generally VG, 6

LOUIS WAIN - Christmas Greeting card of cats playing table tennis, Bridgwater postmark c.1915 ++small blemish to card, but otherwise clean

Jaques - a 19th Century Happy Families card game (24 cards) with instructions (no box) another set of Happy Families cards; a Parker Brothers "Touring" card game in original box with instructions; Arrco Playing Card Co (Canada) two packs of cards with "glamour" backs c.1960`s in original box; some playing cards with advertising backs including Andrews Liver Salts (with Hassall image); Moreland`s Matches and others, the majority in their boxes, some loose ++generally a little grubby and used, the boxed glamour cards in good condition

A quantity of boxed jigsaw puzzles including 5 Victory plywood - of the liner "Queen Elizabeth", Cornish Views, Children playing etc (complete) some later card ones including Mary Poppins, Star Wars, Star Trek, Rupert Bear and others (18 in total)

An Ivory and red stained Chess Set of Staunton pattern, comprising thirty-two pieces; together with a folding Card Playing Board

Cigarette Cards - USA, Lorillard, Playing Card inset Girls, 4 cards, 3 of Spades, 4 of Spades, King of Clubs & King of Diamonds (fair/gd)

Collectables - Playing cards & card games, collection of 20+ packs & games, various ages (mixed condition)

A tartan ware playing card case, with cards, bone-inlaid cribbage scorer, Bezique scorer, etc.

Interesting collection of 1920/30s golfing photographs, ephemera, magazines - covering the career of PGA member C Parsons - full time professional at East Brighton Golf Club from 1909 to 1950 - the collection includes numerous press photographs many mounted to include competitions, exhibition matches, presentation and numerous personal photographs which include Walter Hagan playing in an exhibition match with Charlie Parsons in 1933. Plus a copy of "Golf Illustrated" dated August 13, 1920 featuring Charlie Parsons on the front cover winning the Sussex Professional Championship by 10 strokes from his nearest rival using Dunlop 31 golf ball - 1929 & 1931 PGA Journals, the latter includes the list of members elected as honorary members of their respective clubs to include Charlie Parsons, as well as a photograph of plaque presented to Bobby Jones by the PGA in recognition of his grand slam achievement in 1930 - A record score card dated 1908 Brighton & Hove recording 64 (14 under par) not in the best condition - and finally numerous newspaper articles and photographs recording the achievements of Charlie Parsons as a professional playing both County and other regional matches & tournaments - quite a player.

A China Playing Card Case having figure decoration, a glass figure of a seated dog, a J. Wilkinson figure of a seated dog, another metal figure of a seated dog and a small fruit wood snuff box having cat motifs (5)

* A Regency rosewood and brass inlaid card table, the foldover top enclosing a baize inset playing surface, the shallow breakfront frieze centred by a stylised foliate motif, raised on a splayed square column support, ending in sabre legs with hairy paw brass caps and castors, 89cm wide, 71cm high, 44.5cm deep

A group of three dimensional French paper figures `Jeux Enfants`. Including a boy on a horse, girl with dog and two playing with toys. Embossed card. Complete but damage to slip case, 19th Century

A late Victorian playing card case, modelled in the form of a sedan chair, 8.5cm. high, maker S.J., London, 1899, 4.5ozs.

A Victorian calamander games box containing 4 Moroccan leather divisions for playing cards and a central brass and ebony cribbage board and two card bezique markers.

AN EDWARDIAN INLAID MAHOGANY ENVELOPE TOPPED CARD TABLE, having baize playing surface and guinea wells, above single freize drawer with gilt metal knobs, square tapering legs with undershelf and brass castors. C1910. 22" Square x 29.5" High.

A VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD FOLD OVER CARD TABLE, having well figured top with curved angles, revealing baize covered playing surface, foliate and "C" scroll moulded freize standing on a baluster turned foliate moulded column with four cabriole type legs having scrolled feet and brass castors. C1865. 36" Wide x 18" deep x 29.5" High.

A GEORGE II STYLE MAHOGANY FOLD OVER CARD TABLE, having projecting demilune angles, baize playing surface, above single freize drawer standing on turned tapering legs with pad feet. Early 20th century. 32" Wide x 16" Deep x 28.5" High.

Four Wedgwood Jasperware dishes in the form of four playing card suits and a carnival glass bowl.

A late 19th century Swiss 8 air 6 1/4inch musical box, with three bells, playing popular British airs, coloured lithographic card, in a simulated rosewood box with inlaid lid, width, 42cm, a/f

An Victorian Board Game-The Great Centre-London and Surroundings, Published by D. Ogilvy, 17 Christ Church Road, Hampstead, comprising a pictorial map with fifty six engraved views of places within fifty miles of London (framed and glazed), instruction booklet, pleasure guide, compass board and card place names, size of playing board 57cm by 75cm

A French Games Compendium by Jombart, Paris, the folding wooden leather cloth covered box with pictorial games label, containing a lithographed card playing board, playing cards, lotto, dominoes, bone counters, Jeu de L`oie board etc.

A Mixed Collection of Toys, including a boxed Dan Dare Electronic Radio Station, a boxed Peter Rabbit Race Game, with lead playing pieces, a boxed Tri-ang clockwork Kitty and Butterfly toy, an egg laying hen in a Bakelite egg, Bezique card games, slot machine, Dinky and other diecast vehicles etc.

Playing Cards.- Il Gioco delle Minchiate manuscript" 18pp. small 4to including ornamental title unbound outer pages soiled tear at foot of first leaf repaired Italy [18th century] § Horr (Norton T.) A Bibliography of Card Games and the History of Playing-Cards A.L.s. from the author to the owner inserted annotations in text original wrappers stained 8vo Cleveland 1892 § Benham (W. Gurney) Playing Cards illustrations some coloured original cloth dust jacket torn 4to n.d.; together with 36 catalogues including the De La Rue Collection1970 five issued by the Deutsches Spielkarten Museum 1968-1979; and Selected packs from the Jaime Ortiz-Pratiño Collection 1995; and 12 packs of cards including a Spanish pack Madrid 1868; and six by Fournier and Ass in original boxes" various sizes(a quantity)

Six antique lacquered playing card trays, each with gilt decoration, 4 1/2" wide, together with a satinwood box with leather bound priest (8).

* De La Rue (Thomas, and Co., pub.). The New and Diverting Game of ‘Golliwogg’ consisting of Forty-Eight Pictorial Cards, Depicting the Most Famous Characters and Scenes in the Above Works. Adapted, drawn in fac-simile, and elaborately rendered in Colours from Florence K. Upton’s Original Designs, c.1910, forty-eight colour-printed pictorial cards in sixteen sets of three (complete), first leaf (of two) of rules, 90 x 63 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), contained in orig. slipcase box (rubbed), inner slipcase with early ms. notes on one side, outer slipcase lacking sides, pictorial label on upper cover, together with Mickey Mouse Playing Cards, c.1930s, standard English pack, complete, incl. Joker and Scoring card, contained in orig. cardboard box, some minor wear to extrems., and small label on one side, 90 x 58 mm (3.5 x 2.25 ins), plus another De La Rue pack (for the French market), non-standard, with Shakespearean double-ended courts, lacking the five and the queen of diamonds and the queen of clubs (3)

* Domino playing cards. A pack of domino playing cards, French, early 19th c., thirty hand-col. eng. cards (complete), comprising twenty-six pictorial cards, each with domino symbol in the centre, and two continuous strip images (top and bottom, facing each other), that conjoin when dominoes matched to form a domestic panorama, plus four additional cards, each with caricature face in centre, and with slotted corners, generally dust-soiled, 96 x 63 mm (3.75 x 2.5 ins), contained in later cardboard box. Rare. Including images of a magician, stilt walkers, soldiers, street sellers, a pickpocket, a corpse hanging from a gibbet, a duel, children’s games, musicians, puppeteers, etc. (1) Amendment: There are 31 hand-col eng. cards (rather than 30 as described) and so there is one card missing (the double nought).

* Handmade playing cards, Richards, 1864, an incomplete deck of forty-four (of 52) hand-drawn and coloured playing cards, standard English (after Bancks” pattern), comprising four suits of thirteen, each with pip cards 1-10 and three full-length court cards, lacking: 3, 4, and 5 of diamonds; 7 and 10 of clubs; and 2, queen, and king of hearts, ace of spades with pen and ink crest and “Richards 1864” lettered below, plain versos, dusty, mounted on card with pale green versos, 94 x 64 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins) (1)

* Indian playing cards. A set of Ganjifa circular playing cards, 19th c., ninety-six cards (complete), comprising eight suits of twelve cards each, hand-painted and varnished on stiffened paper, each featuring detailed images of people and animals, incl. enthroned figures, tigers, servants, people riding camels, elephants, and horses, and a bullock pulling a chariot, patterned on versos, diameter 49 mm (2 ins), contained in orig. wooden box with sliding lid, rubbed, hand-painted with servants, figures on horseback and camels, elephants and tigers, 80 x 161 x 79 mm (3 x 6.5 x 3 ins) Ganjifa is the best known Indian card game, and is characterised by secular illustrations; the eight sets were intended to symbolize the eight administrative units at the imperial court of the Moslem moguls. (1)

* Indian playing cards. A set of Hindoo circular playing cards, early 20th c., 120 cards (complete), hand-painted and varnished on paper, comprising ten suits, each containing ten pip cards and two court cards, one scored with sl. loss to colour, diameter 77 mm (3 ins), contained in orig. wooden box with sliding lid (lid loose in rebate), hand-painted with a figure on each side, 97 x 97 x 97 mm (3.75 x 3.75 x 3.75 ins) See Hargrave, A History of Playing Cards, pp.24-27. The ten suits picture emblems of the ten avatars of Vishnu: fish, tortoise, boar, lion, water jar, axe, bow and arrow, thunderbolt, shell and sword. The chief court card of each suit shows some incident connected with that particular incarnation. (1)

* Miscellanea. A rare early 19th c.(?) small enamel dish, quaterfoil shape, hand-painted with three playing cards: the queen of spades, the two of diamonds, and the four of hearts, with floral sprays, badly damaged and repaired, 70 x 82 mm (2.75 x 3.25 ins), together with ten other items of china with playing card designs, all 20th c., incl. mugs, ash trays, dishes, etc., plus a small quantity of related items, e.g. Bezique markers, score cards, dice, counters, etc. (a carton)

* Persian playing cards. A collection of Persian playing cards for the game of As Nas, 19th c., together twenty cards, hand-painted and lacquered on stiffened paper, incl. three identical pairs, and a set of four identical, plus others similar, each featuring a full-length figure or animals, incl. two lions with the rising sun, the enthroned Shah, the enthroned wife of the Shah, the dancing harem girl, and the figure of a man (possibly a soldier), approx. 60 x 40 mm (2.5 x 1.5 ins), contained in a contemp. Persian papier m?che box, with domed lid, hand-painted and lacquered, with scenes of figures hunting on horseback and cooking, red base with gilt floral and foliate pattern, some minor surface cracking and flaking, 50 x 95 x 70 mm (2 x 3.75 x 3 ins) As Nas cards first appeared around 1700, i.e. in the Safawiden Dynasty. The game of As Nas is made up of five suits, each containing any number of cards divisible by five. Each suit repeats the same design on each card: Padishah - the Shah on a green background; Bibi - the favourite wife of the Shah on a throne against a red background; Lakkat - a dancing harem girl on a yellow background; Sarbaz - the archer, later the soldier, on a golden background; As - the lion from the Persian coat of arms and the rising sun on a black background. The game is thought to have been the ancester of poker as it is played in a similar fashion. (1)

* Spanish playing cards. A pack of playing cards, c.1810, forty hand-col. eng. playing cards, comprising twelve full-length court cards (one supplied in facsimile), and twenty-eight pip cards (complete), dusty, some rubbing, foliate pattern on verso, 86 x 55 mm (3.5 x 2.25 ins), together with An incomplete pack of playing cards, Madrid, Jose Martinez de Castro, 1810, hand-col. eng. imprint card, plus thirty-one (of 48) hand-col. eng. cards, comprising nine (of 12) full-length court cards and twenty-two (of 36) pip cards, patterned on verso, 86 x 55 mm (3.5 x 2.25 ins), plus A pack of playing cards, mid-19th c., forty-eight hand-col. eng. cards, comprising twelve full-length court cards and thirty-six pip cards (complete), all with two indices, patterned versos, 86 x 56 mm (3.5 x 2.25 ins) All three sets with the national suits (swords, clubs, cups and coins). Although the full Spanish pack comprises forty-eight cards, most have forty cards, the number which is required by the national game of hombre. “The Spanish cards made around 1800 are of a particularly high artistic quality” (Hoffmann, The Playing Card, 1973, p.15). (3)

* Playing cards. A collection of Souvenir playing cards, 20th c., from Britain, Turkey, New Zealand, Gran Canaria, Channel Islands, Spain, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Brussels, China, etc., e.g. Taj Mahal Palace Hotel; Churche’s Mansion, Nantwich, Spanish bullfighting cards; Morit Orgueil Castle, Jersey; The Norfolk Broads; Oxford and Cambridge University, together with two decks of Film Star Playing Cards, plus royalty playing cards (1977 Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and Wedding of Charles and Diana, multiple copies), plus a collection of playing cards produced in and relating to America, e.g. Concave Sides, 1929; New York Consolidated Card Company; Congress Playing Cards; Crooked Deck Playing Cards; Steamboat Playing Cards, some in boxes, tins, wallets, etc., some incomplete, approx. 200+ (2 cartons)

Playing cards. A collection of bibliographical material and reference books relating to playing cards, 20th c., incl. collecting cards, card games, auction and dealers” catalogues, journals (Playing-Card World, The Playing Card, The Journal of the Playing-Card Society), scrapbooks with mounted examples of playing cards, and other related ephemera (3 cartons)

* American theatre playing cards. Cincinnati, The US Playing Card Co., 1908, fifty-three col. printed cards gilt, comprising Joker and four suits of thirteen, each with b & w photo. port. of a stage star within floral art nouveau oval frame, patterned versos, a.e.g., 87 x 62 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), contained in orig. leather wallet with popper fastening (extrems. rubbed and sl. loss at foot of spine) (1)

* American playing cards. The Great Southwest Souvenir Playing Cards, Kansas City, Missouri, Fred Harvey, c.1910, fifty-four col. printed cards (complete), comprising four suits of thirteen, French suits, each with pips 1-10 and three court cards, all with oval photos. of Indians, buildings, and views, indices to opposing corners, plus map card and joker, illust. of mounted Indians on versos, a.e.g., rounded corners, 88 x 63 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), contained in orig. red cloth slipcase box gilt, together with California Playing Cards, San Francisco, California, R.J. Waters, c.1900, fifty-four playing cards (complete), comprising four suits of thirteen, French suits, each with pip cards 1-10 and three court cards, all with scenic oval, plus map card and joker, 88 x 63 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), plus orig. 4pp. explanatory sheet, contained in orig. red cloth slipcase box gilt, rubbed, lacking top of outer case, plus Picturesque Canada Souvenir Playing Cards, Montreal, Canadian Pacific Railway News Service, early 20th c., fifty-five playing cards, comprising four suits of thirteen, French suits, each with pip cards 1-10 and three court cards, all with scenic oval, plus joker, index card, and price card, landscape versos, rounded corners, 89 x 64 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), contained in orig. blue cloth slipcase box gilt, plus two other Canadian Souvenir decks similar, both boxed and complete (5)

* De La Rue (Thomas & Co.). Patience Playing Cards with Rounded Corners and Index Pips, c.1920, a double deck of standard English playing cards, each in orig. printed wrapper with three pence duty, 71 x 49 mm (2.75 x 2 ins), contained together in orig. cardboard box, together with two other double decks, both in orig. box and wrappers similar, plus Pigmy Playing Cards, c.1920, a double deck of standard English playing cards, each in orig. plain wrapper with ink stamp of Timothy White, Bournemouth, 47 x 32 mm (1.75 x 1.25 ins), contained together in orig. cardboard box, plus Goodall (Charles), A standard English deck of playing cards, c.1920, fifty-two col. printed cards (complete), comprising four suits of thirteen, each with pip cards 1-10 and three double-faced court cards, opposing corner indices, pink patterned versos, rounded corners, contained in orig. cardboard slipcase box advertising Hope brothers, Gentlemen’s Complete Outfitters and Military Tailors, plus nine other playing card items, incl. four boxed double packs de La Rue Pneumatic Playing Cards, a Goodall double pack of Patience Playing Cards, contained in orig. morocco box, and a Piatnik boxed double pack Roses Patience Cards (14)

* New Zealand playing cards. A deck of playing cards, Wanganui, A.D. Willis, c.1900, fifty-three cards, comprising advert. cards, and four suits of thirteen, French suits, each with pips 1-10 and three double-faced court cards, blue bird-patterned versos, rounded corners, sl. dusty and some corner-creasing, jack of spades with tip of one corner torn away, two of diamonds with oval ink stamp, 87 x 61 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), contained in orig. cardboard box, lacking ends, together with American playing cards, Triplicate Playing Cards, New York, A. Dougherty, c.1880, fifty-two col. printed cards (complete), comprising four suits of thirteen, French suits, each with pips 1-10 and three double-faced court cards, indices in opposing corners, cat with ball on versos, rounded corners, 88 x 62 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), plus Fortune telling cards, The ‘Rameses’ Fortune Telling Cards, Goodall, c.1910, fifty-four col. printed cards, comprising blank, subject card, and four suits of thirteen, French suits, each with pips 1-10 and three double-faced court cards, Egyptian versos, a.e.g., rounded corners, 89 x 63 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), together with 4pp. instructions, all contained in orig. mock snakeskin slipcase box gilt, a couple of adhesive repairs, plus ten other decks of playing cards misc., incl. US Concave playing cards, Andre Francois playing cards, advertising cards (Durham carpets, Kendals for Gifts), etc., some boxed, some incomplete (13)

* South African playing cards. A deck of souvenir playing cards, Goodall, early 20th c., fifty-three cards (complete), comprising four suits of thirteen, French suits, each with pip cards 1-10 and three court cards, all with oval photos. of natives, views, street scenes, etc., the jack of spades sl. creased, armorial versos, a.e.g., rounded corners, 89 x 63 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), contained in orig. box gilt, rubbed and broken, with some loss, together with Spanish playing cards, Monumentos de Espana, Vitoria, H. Fournier, early 20th c., fifty-five cards (complete), comprising two jokers, imprint card, and four suits of thirteen, French suits, each with pip cards 1-10 and three court cards, all with photos. of buildings, armorial versos, rounded corners gilt, 88 x 62 mm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), together with 103pp. booklet, all contained in orig. box, sl. rubbed, plus two later decks of cards, incl. Historical Playing Cards, America’s Colonicers and Discoverers, by Fournier, complete and boxed (4)

Inlaid walnut playing card case & trenchware

An antique Queen of Hearts playing card, European, bears the date 1560 verso.

GEORGE III IRISH MAHOGANY SERPENTINE CARD TABLE CIRCA 1760 the shaped foldover top with a foliate carved edge, opening to reveal a baize playing surface, the plain frieze with a gadrooned apron, raised on acanthus carved cabriole legs ending in hairy paw feet 92cm wide, 73cm high, 45cm deep

DUTCH MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY GAMES TABLE 19TH CENTURY inlaid throughout with scrolling foliage, the foldover top opening to reveal an inset baize playing surface and card inlaid spandrals, raised on square tapered legs 81cm wide, 76cm high, 41cm deep

*WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD CARD TABLE CIRCA 1835 the rounded rectangular foldover top enclosing a baize playing surface, raised on a fluted column support, ending on a quatreform base with bun feet 91.5cm wide, 78cm high, 45cm deep

An Art Deco rectangular cigarette/playing card box, engine turned top with a pair of hinged covers, ivory bar handles, angular block feet, cedar lined, 18.5cm wide, Deakin & Francis 1922

A mid Victorian walnut card table, the hinged top with later inset red baize playing surface above a shaped apron centred by rockwork and budding flower head upon a gadrooned baluster column terminating in four cabochon encrusted outswept scrolling legs with castors, 76 x 99 x 49 cm.

Edwardian mahogany rectangular fold-over Card Table, the interior with baize playing surface and carved dishes, with a plain apron and on slender cabriole legs, 92cms x 92cms, (3` x 3`) (open).

GIANNI (LATE 19th/EARLY 20th CENTURY), THE CARD PLAYING CARDINAL, signed lower right, watercolour, framed. 46cm by 31cm

A George III mahogany triple top combined games and tea table, of shaped outline being boxwood strung and with re-entrant corners, the top section lifting to a well figured mahogany tea table further hinging to a green baize lined card playing surface with counter wells and further hinging to a chequer and backgammon board with hinged front compartment for card and gaming accessories, the serpentine front being boxwood and ebony strung with rounded corners and raised on foliate carved cabriole legs terminating in pad feet. Width 34 ins (see illustration).

A William IV mahogany fold-over card table, the rectangular top with rounded front corners opening to reveal a baize inset circular playing surface on an inverted gun barrel tapering column and circular base, raised on four compressed bun feet, 91.5cm wide, 73.5cm high, 45cm deep (closed)

A Tunbridge ware playing card case, inlaid with playing cards, foliage and harebell swags against a stained faded pink ground, the sides inlaid with floral bands.

A RUSSIAN BLACK LACQUER PLAYING CARD CASE, the fascia painted with a milk maid wearing a white blouse and red overskirt comprising a yoke and two pails, red lacquer interior, cover marked with three imperial eagle medallions and Mockba, 4" x 3" x 1 1/4", together with a pack of cards (Illustrated)

An Edwardian playing card box. by WHT, Birmingham 1907, the panelled box with glass panels with playing cards displayed behind, the hinged cover revealing red leather lined interior, the whole raised on stepped bracket feet. 9cm high

George Simson (1780-1839). A Fine & Rare George III Coromandel Card Table. The well figured top inlaid with kingwood cross-grained bands styled into inverted scrolls at the corners accentuated by spear-heads, and opening out to reveal a maroon baize playing surface framed in a border of boxwood strings. The entire top rotating to access the frieze compartment bearing printed maker`s label `George Simson, Upholder, Cabinet Maker & Undertaker, No 19, London` and an inscription in ink `No.306, io/ili/x, AB/S/X`. The central baluster column having a leafy parcel gilt collar above a rectangular platform with canted corners raised on hipped sabre legs ornamented with gilt acanthus appliqués and sweeping down to brass lion paw feet & castors. 29 ins (74 cms) in height, 36 ins x 17½ ins (92 cms x 44.5 cms), 36 ins x 36 ins (92 cms x 92 cms ) open. [References to George Simson made in London Furniture Makers 1660-1840 by Sir Ambrose Heal, Plates on pages 253, 254].

A Set of 11 Garrard & Co. Ltd. Silver Cocktail Sticks having enamelled playing card motifs, Birmingham 1961, in fitted green leather case