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Trade cards, Thailand issue, Thai Bank Wild Animals (set 48 cards) (probably issued 1960's/70's) playing card size (gd)

Cigarette cards, USA, Moore & Calvi, 30 cards "XL" size, Beauties playing card issues various series (fair /gd)

Playing Cards - a large collection of parlour and playing cards in packets, comprising approximately 344 packs, various examples including Merit Forfeits; John Waddington Shop Missus; HG & Sons Ltd Muggins; Chad Valley Happy Families; Michael Stanfield Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends Picture Card Game; Thomas De La Rue Noah's Ark Card Game; etc (a large quantity in twelve box files); eight bespoke pine glazed wall display cabinets

Edwardian mahogany fold-over card table, having moulded edge, two flat top with baize playing surface, over an arrangement of five moulded drawers around an apron, on cabriole legs. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Overall in good condition with only minor wear and tear.  87cm approx. (when open), 76cm wide x 71cm high approx.

A Victorian walnut turnover top card table, crossbanded and inlaid and with cloth lined playing surface all raised on turned and fluted supports with four downswept legs terminating in castors. Height 72 cm, length 91.5 cm, depth 44.5 cm. CONDITION REPORT: The table is structurally sound with no loose joints. It is in generally good condition. There are no losses to the top veneers. The centre inlaid section has some very tiny marquetry losses but is generally smooth to touch and does not snag when polished. The top is not warped. The green baize interior is discoloured and worn. The frieze is in good condition all round. The turned supports are in good order as are all legs which have no veneer losses. The scroll feet are in good order as are the castors. There is no evidence of any woodworm.

Garden statue card playing demon, 20" tall (stand not included).

A cased set of four George V silver novelty teaspoons, each top decorated in enamel with a playing card suit, Birmingham 1924, 1.28oz, in fitted case.

The remaining personal effects of Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele (Medonet, Canada 1848- London 1919), a pack of playing cards with pink backs and South African Constabulary insignia Northern Division, five further packs of playing cards, a 1902 calendar with photograph attached, a 26th May 1900 The Illustrated Montreal Herald announcing Lt Col. Steele's sailing to South Africa to the two Col. Steele brand cigar boxes and a card cigar case from the Savoy Hotel, two Canadian Patriotic Calendars, 1901, boxed now flat and an 1896 calendar,(13).

Regency rosewood and brass inlaid card table, the rectangular fold-over and swivelling top with rounded corners with a satinwood band, opening to reveal a blue baize lined interior playing surface, the frieze with a raised panel with satinwood stringing and a lower beaded brass edge, the concave and canted column with a shaped platform base applied with scrolls with brass star inlays and stringing, quadruple splayed supports terminating in foliate cast cups and castorsDimensions: Height: 75cm  Length/Width: 92cm  Depth/Diameter: 45cm

Swiss - late19th century cylinder musical box playing 8 airs, in a figured mahogany case with ebonised edges and block feet, inlaid banding and a small inlaid mother of pearl butterfly to the lid, crank wound single barrel spring driven mechanism with Geneva stopwork, 32cm pinned brass cylinder with a two part polished steel comb and zither, jewelled governor with stop, start, and repeat functions, inner glazed viewing lid with original hand written tune card and retailers name and address pinned to the inside of the lidDimensions: Height: 15cm  Length/Width: 57cm  Depth/Diameter: 23cmCondition Report:Mechanism in good playing condition with little sign of corrosion, tips of all the comb teeth present.

A mid-18th century 'red walnut' triple leaf fold-over card table, having a gamesboard top with four small ivory roundel insets, above a baize lined playing surface with dished counterwells, all on single gateleg rear action, plain frieze, and turned tapering supports with pad feet, w.91cm, d.45cm, h.76cmIvory Submission Ref: QXT16YHB

A small qty of toys & model vehicles incl. a Seyfarth & Reinhardt Doll a/f, a West German Clockwork Elephant playing the thimbles, 'Silver Dreams' card model by Leonardo etc.

Four cameras and miscellanea to include Olympus Trip 35, Kodak Coloursnap and Nikon Af, hand mirror and comb, West Ham United and Chelsea key rings, six Brooke Bond tea card albums, playing cards, glasses, purse, dice, etc.

A Victorian walnut demi-lune card table, the fold over top inlaid with Greek key pattern border and opening to a baize lined playing surface, raised on a turned column and four scroll carved and splayed supports. H73cm, W85cm. 

A Walnut and other woods swivel top foldover card table with green baize playing surface on carved cabriole legs.

Various old card games including The Round Card Game of Happy Families, Blaze, The Charles Dickens Game, ARP Happy Families, Catch the Kaiser, International Football Cards, Cup Reading Fortune Cards, Piatnik & Son Playing Cards, Craven A Playing Cards and others etc.

Various vintage card games and small games including History of England, Illustrated Book Titles, Fairy Tale playing cards, Speed card game, Gypsy Fortune Telling cards and others, etc

* Berlin Chart Playing Cards. Jeu des Petits Points, Paris: Alphonse Giroux, circa 1820, a complete piquet deck of 32 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), each card printed with a fine grid in black, and hand-painted with a petit point chart illustration or motif to embroider, and a miniature playing card to top left corner (the courts full-length), subjects including children at play, flora and fauna, stag hunting on horseback, an alphabet, buildings, etc., plain versos, slightly rounded corners (from use?), a little dusty, several chipped to corners (10 of clubs with slightly larger loss to lower left corner), 1 or 2 short edge-tears, 9 x 6 cm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), all cards mounted with photo corners onto a black display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (42 x 59.5 cm), together with the lower half of the original pink cardboard box, front of box with a further Berlin chart and the publisher's engraved label QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Illustrated: Verame, Sublime cartes à jouer, p.145.An exceptionally rare pack of early playing cards, serving a dual purpose: for playing piquet, and - most unusually - providing patterns for petit point embroidery. Embroidery on canvas by means of copying a coloured chart became very popular in the 19th century. Such work charts were first produced in the early nineteenth century in Berlin, Germany, hence their name, and they were exported in large numbers. Prior to the introduction of embroidery charts it was very rare to find needlework designs with any indication of colour choices or threads. Berlin patterns were always coloured by hand at first, until the emergence of industrial printing techniques, and early hand-coloured charts are now hard to find. Although such charts have passed through these rooms from time to time, we have never seen a deck of playing cards depicting embroidery patterns, and we have been unable to find another either at auction or in an institution.

THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) - Complete Viral Deck of Promotional Joker (Heath Ledger) Cards with Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) Coin - A complete "viral deck" of Joker (Heath Ledger) cards with a Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) coin from the promotion of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. 42 Entertainment and DC Comics released production-made decks of Joker's unique calling cards as part of its viral marketing campaign.These 47 specialty playing cards, an extremely rare complete set, are printed on textured semi-gloss cardstock and labeled either "Joker" or "J." Each features a distinct pattern on one side and a character image on the other, including gargoyles, dragons, and clowns, among others. Also included is the opened, original card box, and one 1922 "Liberty" coin with a production-distressed side. Several cards exhibit bending. Dimensions: (each) 3.5" x 2.5" (9 cm x 6.5 cm)Estimate: $3,000 - 6,000Bidding for this lot will end on Tuesday, March 12th. The auction will begin at 9:00AM PDT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Wednesday, March 13th or Thursday, March 14th.

THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021) - Full-Scale Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) Costume Bust Replica - A full-scale bust dressed with a replica costume modeled on Harley Quinn's (Margot Robbie) from James Gunn's The Suicide Squad. Quinn wore a revamped version of her signature clown-themed attire when she led the Suicide Squad on a kamikaze mission against Starro the Conqueror. This custom-made fiberglass bust with foam and silicone arms features a blonde wig with two braids, one red and one black; a red and black checkered elastic choker; a custom red and black leather jacket with metal shoulder buckles and "Live Fast Die Clown" printed on the back; a matching zip-front corset with diamonds printed on the chest and metal cinching buckles; red and black leather gloves with playing card suit cut-outs sewn onto the knuckles; and a black leatherette belt with a metal "HQ" buckle. The bust is hand-painted on the face, torso, and fingers and applied with synthetic eyebrows and lashes. It exhibits cracking and stiffening to the leather from age, and flaking paint throughout. Dimensions: 21.5" x 19" x 31" (54.75 cm x 48.25 cm x 78.75 cm)Estimate: $1,500 - 3,000Bidding for this lot will end on Wednesday, March 13th. The auction will begin at 9:00AM PDT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Tuesday, March 12th or Thursday, March 14th.

PHOENIX JOAQUIN: (1974- ) American Actor, Academy Award winner. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph by Phoenix, the image depicting him in a head and shoulders pose holding a joker playing card in costume as The Joker from the film Joker (2019). Signed in bold black ink to a clear area of the image with a tipically hurried signature. EX.

GERONIMO: (1829-1909) Bedonkohe Apache leader and medicine man, noted for his raids and related combat actions during the Apache Wars (1849-86). An excellent, bold pencil signature (‘GERONIMO’) to the verso of the personal printed oblong 12mo Visiting Card of Burns Durbin Caldwell and featuring his printed name to the centre of the recto. Accompanied by the original folio page to which the visiting card was originally loosely affixed. The page, removed from a contemporary album, features a vintage illustrated newspaper clipping laid down to the centre, the text stating, in part, ‘From Warpath to Poker Table – Old Geronimo, the famous fighting chief of the Apaches, is now a prisoner of the government at Port Sill…..it is said that the wily old chief has developed such skill at bluffing and “playing a hand” that he is rapidly getting rich…..Recently Geronimo deposited $1425 in a bank at El Reno as the result of a single week’s play’. Autographs of Geronimo are extremely rare and highly desirable. Some light age wear and two small traces of former mounting to the upper corners, not affecting the signature. About VG Burns D. Caldwell (1858-1922) American businessman, president of the Wells Fargo Express Company and chairman of the board of the American Railway Express Company. Geronimo attained celebrity status during his lifetime and he became a regular attraction at events and fairs including the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York in 1901, the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 and Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Shows, where he appeared under Army guard. Geronimo dressed in traditional clothing on such occasions, posed for photographs, provided autographs and souvenirs, and sold his crafts. The present signature links two of the major household names of America’s Wild West – Geronimo and Wells Fargo, the latter being the company that handled express service to western states, and were often robbed. Provenance: From the autograph collection of Frank Dyche (d.1944) and his wife Grace Scripps Dyche (1863-1924). Frank Dyche, a prominent Chicago attorney, married Grace Scripps in 1896. Grace was the daughter of John Locke Scripps (1818-1866), editor of the Chicago Tribune, and his wife Mary E. Scripps (1825-1866). The Scripps have been described as ‘one of the oldest and most influential families of American journalism’ who ‘occupied a unique place in nineteenth-century America’.

PIAF EDITH: (1915-1963) French singer. A good vintage signed postcard photograph of Piaf, the front image showing the French artist in a double head and shoulders pose, as if it was a playing Queen of hearts poker card. Signed in bold blue ink `Edith Piaf´, beneath a printed text saying "The Queen! Edith Piaf appears nightly at Versailles". Overall minor staining, otherwise G

A Collection of Vintage Whist Playing Cards, Score Cards and Table Card Numbers Etc

Six vintage rabbit soft toys, including a Merrythought with cinnamon and white mohair, remains of felt eyes on a plastic outer, label to foot pad --14in. (35.5cm.) high; a smaller blue grey rabbit with blue and black plastic eyes in a white cotton dress and a small card suitcase with Little Grey Rabbit playing cards and other items (wear and thinning, handle loose on one side of suit case) - from the Susan Collard Collection

Three limited edition Hermann teddy bears, The Golden Bear, with musical movement playing, let me be your teddy bear and the Little Golden Book, 191 of 1000, with card tag --13 3/4in. (35cm.) high; an The Angel with golden Wings, 34 of 500 with card tag and a Bruno JJ1, Mister Petz Brown Bear on all fours, with Alpaca fur and double neck joint, 231 of 250 with card tag

A BOX OF DC CHESS COLLECTION MAGAZINES AND FIGURES, issues 1-20 and 24 have had the figures opened, issues 21-23 and 25-32 are still sealed, only nineteen loose figures (2 missing) some losses to heads, hand, etc, together with two Shell Ferrari diecast cars and a modern card chess set with knights and dragons themed playing pieces (1 box and loose)

Canadian Christmas Card Art Series. Features children playing in winter scenes titled Notre ami le bonhomme and l'autobus est en retard. Signed and numbered by artist. Double matted card stock in metal gold frames. Frame size: 14"L x 0.75"W x 11.25"H. Sight size: 8"L x 6"H.  Artist: Pauline T PaquinCountry of Origin: CanadaCondition: Age related wear.

Two Bradford Exchange RAF themed eggs with model aircraft, a RAF Squadron 10 plaque, test pilot cloth badges and a playing card set, etc.

A pair of French 18ct gold pearl 'Club' scarf pins, maker GC&L?, circa 1910, each pin with pearl set Club playing card suit motif connected by cable link chain, pin 38.7mm, chain 9cm, 1.4gBoth Club tips have been repaired, otherwise no damage, all stones present, marks clear

POSTCARD ALBUM: a good album of approx 230 vintage postcards, various RP topographical views noted: Louis Wain card by Davidson Bros depicting frogs playing football, comic and embroidered types etc, album with decorative blue cloth covers, pictorial oval onlay to upper, 4to. (1)

AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II WALNUT AND SCAGLIOLA GAMING TABLE with a pentagonal scagliola top inlaid with trailing flowers, scallop shells and groups of playing cards within strapwork borders within a moulded edge over a plain frieze, on five cabriole legs carved at the knee with stylised acanthus leaves with a flowerhead and foliage below, 118cm x 125cm (across the top) x 77.5cm highThis rare table was almost certainly conceived for the game of Ombre, an 18th century card game for five players. One of the playing cards is signed "Alla Fama" ("to fame").Provenance: Almost certainly commissioned for Ven House, Milborne Port, although there are no records or labels to support this. The table was illustrated in Country Life on 17th March 1966 accompanying a letter from Arthur Oswald requesting information on similar pieces.Note: It seems likely that the scagliola top was purchased in Italy on the Grand Tour and subsequently mounted on the frame in England.To be removed at the Buyer's risk and expense.

Nine silver Teaspoons with golfing figure finials, Birmingham 1936-8, two A/F, four George V silver and enamel Coffee Spoons with playing card finials, Birmingham 1934/5, seven Coffee Spoons with flower finials, Birmingham 1925 & 1937, Spoon with enamel pigeon finial and Home Guard Rifle Club Spoon

19th century straw work playing card case and an embroidered and beadwork egg, the case 12 x 8cm

19thC inlaid specimen wood playing card case with card and bird decoration, Tunbridge Ware / micro mosaic and feather banding borders

* English playing cards. Standard pattern, J. & W. Mitchell of Birmingham, circa 1890, a complete deck (without joker?) of 52 colour printed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts printed in four colours, decorative ace of spades with maker's details and registration number, indices, dust- and finger-soiled, toned and marked, 7S with small corner crease, rounded corners, versos ornamental design in white on brown, each card 89 x 63 mm, together with: Deakin's Political Playing Cards, Willis & Co, 1881, double-ended courts with caricatures of named political figures, ace of spades with title and maker, triplicate type indices on pip cards, dusty, few minor marks, KC with tiny edge tear, rounded corners, versos red ornate pattern on yellow, each card 89 x 64 mm, with original titled two-part box, plus: Standard type WY2, Woolley & Co, circa 1875, a complete Piquet deck of 32 colour printed playing cards (French suits), double-ended unturned courts, Woolley ace of spades type 1, no indices, square corners, dusty, versos plain blue, each card 94 x 65 mm, with five other decks by Willis: Deakin's Political Playing Cards 2nd edition, 1887; standard deck, circa 1878, double-ended unturned courts, one ways pips, no indices, square corners, ornate colourful floral pattern versos; standard deck, circa 1880, double-ended unturned courts, one way pips, no indices, slightly rounded corners, pink floral versos; standard deck, circa 1885, triplicate indices obscuring pip signs on courts, double-ended turned courts, two way pips, versos Chinese style with bird, fish and lady with fan in red on yellow; standard deck, circa 1885, triplicate indices obscuring parts of courts (eg. weapons), with suit signs opposite to usual, versos brown red & black shadows of men playing cards in a window, and three other decks by Woolley: Eureka Harrys, circa 1880, with original two-part box (defective); standard pack, circa 1887, double-ended turned, small indices, original Great Mogul Eureka wrapper; standard pack, circa 1880, courts printed in black & red, later use as a fortune-telling pack with most cards having ink manuscript 'Fortunes' added to one end, all complete, various conditions, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 11 display boards/cards, most boards encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cm and similarQTY: (11)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Plainbacks M43 & M105. An unusual manufacturer who only produced playing cards for a few years.

* English playing cards. Hobby Horse, by Michael Evans, 1986, limited edition: no.25 of 350 copies, the complete deck of 60 cards, including 7 jokers and one limitation card (French suits), together with Arpak No-Revoke pack, circa 1925, a complete deck of 52 + joker playing cards, gilt edges, versos red ornamental design, in original Samuels Ltd box (defective), plus Standard deck, British Playing Cards Ltd., circa 1920, a pack of 32 cards for Bezique (French suits), with joker (therefore probably issued as 52 + 1), from this scarce maker, ace of spades with owl (Leeds?), soiled and somewhat worn, versos red ornamental, with 54 other English decks, all 20th century, most complete, various conditions, a quantity of cards from most decks mounted with photo corners onto 32 display boards/cards, some encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 55 x 41 cm and similarQTY: (57)NOTE:The additional packs comprise: 3 futher Arpak no-revoke decks; a deck by Peter Gurney Ltd, circa 1920, with green backgrounds to all cards; 2 political - Playing Politics '87, & Playing Politics or Cabinet Shuffle 1981; 19 Waddingtons decks including, Con-Vex, Zulu, Collector's pack of Antiques, Nursery Rhymes, National Emblem, Glider, Genoese/Belgian, and various advertising or standard; 12 Universal PCC / Alf Cooke including, 1936 coronation of Edward VIII, 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II, & Romany fortune telling; one Clan Tartan pack by Porterprint of Leeds; 3 packs for the blind - BSP Industries, Pastime Playing Cards for the Blind, & Moon Embossed cards by De La Rue; one War Planes pack by Temple Press, circa 1942; 5 advertising decks including Grants whisky 1988, Wills tobacco 1986, & Biba Fashion Empire circa 1970; and five others printed for the UK in China / Hong Kong / Belgium, plus two packs issued with confectionary.

* English playing cards. Standard pattern type I, James Stopforth, circa 1815, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), single figure courts, KH with initials HC on axe-haft, Garter type A4 ace of spades (die no.9, 1st recut), Superfine stamp on ace of clubs, browned and somewhat soiled, few marks, JH with very small surface loss (possibly from manufacture) to edge of right sleeve, 4C with edge crease, 8S with tiny surface loss to one suit sign, versos plain white, each card 93 x 64 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry, Playing-Cards of the World, [665]; British Museum 1938,0813.2.1-52.

* French playing cards. Imperial pattern, designed by J.L. David, 1810, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured wood engraved playing cards (French suits), neo-classical single-figure courts, each with additional stencilled suit sign at bottom corner, and with additional stencilled indices/ranks to both diagonal corners, named kings, JH with engraver's name Andrieu, JS milestone with printed text (partially obscured by stencilled suit sign): A. Mongez Del., Andrieu Sc., F. Didot, MDCCCX, JD with seller's ink stamp: Agneessens F. Longue ... A Gand, dusty, some light toning (KD & JD toned), few minor marks or foxing spots, few suits signs lightly rubbed, 3C somewhat rubbed and soiled, versos central black stencilled flower, eagle watermark, each card 82 x 54 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.D'Allemagne, Les Cartes á Jouer... I, pp.145-148; Cary, FRA 354 & 355; The Playing Card Vol XIII no1, Aug 1984, p.21; Verame, Sublimes Cartes á Jouer, p.60.This design was commissioned by the Régie administration in 1808 and finally published by Didot in 1810. However it did not find favour with the public and was quickly replaced. Therefore packs with this short-lived design are most uncommon.

* English playing cards. New Floral Playing Cards, Rock Brothers and Payne, circa 1864, the complete deck of 52 colour lithographed playing cards, with floral suits: roses & carnations (red), pansies & violets (deep mauve), full length courts in historical style costume, no indices, scarce minor marks (most probably from manufacture), square corners, versos plain white, each with black ink stamp '1914', each card 94 x 64, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 53.5 x 42 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.EPCS Newsletter, vol.17 no.65 (Aug.1999), p.73; Plainbacks M100.In his notes, Dudley Ollis speculates that the numbered stamp on each verso of this unusual deck may be a manufacturer's sample pack number.

* French costume playing cards. Fashion plate pack, Paris: Migeon, circa 1850, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured lithographed playing cards (French suits), single-figured courts displaying contemporary fashions, KS with maker's name, dusty, some toning, scarce spotting and minor marks, some pip cards creased, AS with small corner chip, 4S soiled, versos plain pink, each card 84 x 56 mm, together with: Cartes Parisiennes, Paris: [for] Le Caméléon, ou le Propagateur des Modes, circa 1850, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), all pip signs gilt (lightly rubbed in places), single-figured courts displaying contemporary fashions, JS with engraver's name Beyer, JH with artist's name Janet-Lange, and with address of the publisher, JD with printer's name Pierrat, aces with decorative gilt garlands around pip signs, dusty, occasional minor spots or marks (mainly to pip cards), versos plain blue, each card 86 x 55 mm, plus: Cartes françaises avec personnages anglais, Paris: O. Gibert, circa 1856, a complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), single-figured courts, the kings and queens portraying named historic British characters, the jacks in historic costume, JS with maker's name, some light spotting or brown marks (mainly to pip cards), versos plain blue, each card 84 x 56 mm, with two other French costume decks: one by Avril, circa 1865, single-figured courts (using Gibert's plates), kings and queens portraying named historic French characters, 52 complete; the other by Le Bourgeois, circa 1870, historic British characters deck (as Gibert above), with scenic aces, imprint on all aces and courts, rounded corners, gilt edges, 52 complete, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 5 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Cartorama 63 #68 (with vari-coloured suit signs); Cary, FRA 349 (the later Le Bourgeois edition); Fournier, France 249 (the later Le Bourgeois edition); Ortiz-Patiño #46 (with scenic aces).Second item: Cary, FRA 388; Tilley, p.158. Pierrat is known to have printed Cartes Parisiennes for Le Caméléon (see Verame, Sublimes Cartes á Jouer, p.108 for an example).Third item: Cartorama 58 #100 (the much later Le Bourgeois edition); Cary, FRA 346 (the later Avril edition).

* Belgian Animal Tarot. A deck of tarot cards, Ghent, Belgium: Philip Pharasyn, circa 1780, a complete deck of 78 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards, comprising 4 suits of 14 (French suits), full-length court cards, jack of spades holding an armorial, jack of hearts with armorial and banner giving maker's details, plus 22 trump cards, comprising 21 full-length animal trumps (bearing double-ended Roman numerals I-XXI) and Fool card, occasional pale spotting or brown marks, two pip cards with pale water stain to one corner, trump I with short closed edge tear, jack of hearts with minor surface abrasion to left border, versos blue pattern of wavy dotted lines and voided diamonds, each card 112 x 60 mm, 41 cards mounted with photo corners onto 2 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of boards), the remainder contained in a plastic bag, the boards 42 x 59.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.British Museum 1877,0310.177-212 (incomplete: without any trump cards); IPCS pattern sheet 9.Not in Reisinger, Tarocke. See Kaplan, Encyclopedia of Tarot vol.II, pp.413 & 415 for a very similar (facsimile copy of) Belgian Animal Tarock by F.J. Vandenborre. The unusual court cards of Belgian Animal Tarot packs are quite distinctive, especially the kings, who all wear thonged sandals.

* English non-standard playing cards. Shakespearean Playing Cards, Munich Lion-Brew Company, circa 1910, a complete deck of 52 + 1 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts portraying characters from Shakespeare's plays, designed by Frederic Colin Tilney, with jester Touchstone as the joker, each named and with suitable quote alongside, decorative ace of spades with maker's details amidst a foliate design with two lions, indices, dusty, some minor marks, few pip cards with minor edge/corner crease, KS with strong corner crease, JS with crease affecting one suit sign, rounded corners, versos elaborate yellow and red design incorporating lions and maker's name, each card 91 x 61 mm, with original box (defective), together with: Shakespeare Playing Cards, C.W. Faulkner & Co Ltd, 1905, a complete deck of 52 + 2 chromolithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts portraying characters from Shakespeare's plays, based on paintings by John H. Bacon, each named on the accompanying title card, the joker is a jester on a donkey, ace of spades with maker's details, indices, lightly dusty, few very minor marks, title card with horizontal crease below text, rounded gilt corners, versos ornamental design in shades of brown/orange, each card 92 x 60 mm, with original two-part box stating C.W. Faulkner & Co Ltd, plus: Chinese Euchre deck, Bijou Stationary (ie. Mullord Brothers), circa 1880, a complete (though probably mixed) deck of 32 Oriental-themed playing cards, lithographed with metallic inks, plus instruction card and two blank thick packing cards, non-standard suits: frogs/toads (copper/bronze), dragons (silver), cats (pale gold) and birds (yellow gold), full length courts depicting comic Chinese characters with a 3-line rhyme beneath (relating to the appropriate suit animal), probably a mixed deck as 7 of frogs is silver (not copper) and 7 of cats is silver (not pale gold), strangely there is an additional 6 of dragons card (no 6s normally in a Euchre deck), generally rubbed (especially king of birds), frog courts each with horizontal crease (faintly to jack), square corners, versos plain black, each card approximately 103 x 68 mm, with original decorative titled box, stating 'Bijou Stationary', and with: Royal Geographical Whist, Nash, Waters & Nash of Bournemouth & Poole (?), circa 1880, the complete deck of 52 colour lithographed playing cards, each suit representing a continent and printed in a single colour: Europe (blue), Asia (purple), America (red) & Africa (black), the numbered pip cards with views from suitable countries, courts with portraits of relevant named people, aces show a globe with an outline of the continent, toned and dusty, spotting, finger-soiling to edges, light wear to few corners, Asia 5 with short vertical crease, Europe 2 with corner crease, slightly rounded corners, versos mottled pink, each card 95 x 65 mm, with a photocopy of the original rules leaflet, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 4 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, each board 54.5 x 40.5 cm and similarQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Berry, The Playing-Cards of the World, [457]; Cartorama 62 #189.This pack, like that published by Swan Sonnenschein, was printed by Bemrose & Sons Ltd, as stated on the ace of spades.Second item: Darbyshire, Bargains! The History & Games of C.W. Faulkner & Co., pp.26-29.This pack was printed by Dondorf and is virtually identical to their own Shakespeare pack (Braun, Die Spielkarten B. Dondorf, BD 1895/1). C.W. Faulkner became a Limited Company in 1905.Third item: British Museum 1896,0501.1079 (Schreiber, American 9). This deck, advertised as both Chinese and Japanese Euchre, seems to be most uncommon. We have found only two other examples: the British Museum (BM) incomplete deck (incorrectly attributed to America), and that described in Neil Darbyshire's Comical Card Games by The Mullord Brothers (pp.42-43). Like ours, his deck is also mixed. Interestingly, his suit colours and those of the BM copy are different to our pack, supporting his theory that the game was reprinted with different allocation of colour. The BM copy also has additional 6s, not used for Euchre.Last item: The Playing Card, vol.XXVII no.4 (Jan/Feb 1999), p.121. This is the only mention of this unusual geographical whist pack we have found. The photocopy rules give the name of the printers Nash, Waters & Nash at the foot. They were in business under this name in 1881, and it is certainly possible that they not only printed the leaflet but also the cards, perhaps experimenting with playing card production. The rules explains that the rank order of the courts is full-figure, then half-figure, with the busts being the lowest rank. The leaflet also describes how the pack can be used to play Snap and a Geography game in addition to whist.

* French playing cards. Cartes Royales, 2nd edition, Paris: Widow Dambrin, 1817, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), single-figure named courts designed by Armand-Gustave Houbigant, the courts with small indices to lower right corners, JS sword with Darendarda, JD and JC with motto on book and column respectively, lightly dusty, some toning and scarce minor spotting, QS and AH slightly marked, versos plain white, fleur-de-lis watermark, each card 81 x 53 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 39.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry, Playing-Cards of the World [523]; British Museum 1896,0501.556.1-32 (Schreiber, French 31); Cary, FRA 293; Tilley, illustrated p.144; Verame, Sublimes Cartes á Jouer, p.35. Apparently for this second edition of the pack designed by Houbigant, the courts were redrawn by Bergeret.

* French playing cards. Jeu de Gambetta, Paris: Bastide et Giraud, circa 1880, a complete non-standard Piquet deck of 32 colour wood engraved playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts with diagonal Tricolore dividing strip, kings portraying creators of the French Third Republic (Gambetta, Thiers, Grévy & MacMahon), queens representing concepts (Science, Industrie, Commerce, Beaux-Arts), jacks representing trades each ace with named armorial of a French city, all aces and courts with B.G. Paris twice, toned and dusty, few minor marks, AD with pale horizontal mark to blank area (and associated very minor surface abrasion), 7C with tiny closed edge tear, 7S with very small brown stain to one edge, square corners (most slightly rounded from use), versos mauve squares in trellis pattern, each card 82 x 53 mm, 17 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 53.5 x 42 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Verame (1989) pp.114 & 131. This appears to be a rare pack. The only other example we have found, beyond that mentioned in Verame, is a pack sold by Millon auctions on 5th November 2011 (lot 146). Here it is given the name Nouveau jeu de cartes nationales illustrées, and is credited to Edmund Bastide and Adolphe Saint-Aubin - despite having the intials B.G. on the courts & aces (their mention of initials S.C. is possibly due to poor printing of the B.G. initials on many cards). Verame, on page 131 gives Bastide and Girard as the makers, although confusingly on page 114 he names Grimaud instead.

* English playing cards. Transformation deck, C.B. Reynolds of Liverpool, circa 1865, a complete deck of 52 playing cards (French suits), lithographed in black and red only, single figure non-standard courts, clubs representing South American characters, diamonds and hearts European style rulers or gentry, spades seems to show ordinary folk, pip cards with small caricatures within the pip signs, ace of hearts showing Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra, ace of spades with maker's details and images of Liverpool, ace of diamonds with two tavern scenes, soiled, some brown marks, ace of clubs with 2cm closed tear to blank area, queen of diamonds with jagged loss to right edge (cut away), versos brown cherub with bow and arrow on pink, Prince of Wales,s Feathers in top border, each card 93 x 63 mm, 32 cards mounted with photo corners onto one folding display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board (folded) 54.5 x 40.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.British Museum 1896,0501.940 (Schreiber, Eng 29), for the original design.This pack was originally produced to commemorate the wedding of Prince Albert Edward (later King Edward VII) to Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863. This particular example is extremely unusual in that it appears to be a re-drawn version, perhaps made as a cheaper production. Several court cards are mirror copies of the first edition and a few are altogether different. Generally the designs are not as well drawn as those in the original version. The colours have been reduced to just black and red, and the versos are without the gilt of the original. Dudley Ollis noted that he was unaware of any other example like this.

* French playing cards. Educational pack, Firmin-Didot frères et Cie (?), 1858, a complete Piquet deck of 32 hand coloured engraved playing cards (French suits), single figure courts portraying named & dated historical characters, each ace with two related biblical scenes, AH with names of creator (Deschamps), artist (Moreau) and engraver (Minne), pip cards each with the appropriate number of medallions containing faces of famous men (named & dated), dusty, some light finger-soiling (mostly affecting edges), few minor marks or spots, KC with tiny surface abrasion to blank area, square corners, versos red dotted cells with black line across each corner, each card 83 x 56 mm, 21 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:D'Allemagne, Les Cartes á Jouer... I, pp.244-245; British Museum 1982,U.4590.1-32; Cary, FRA 281; WWPCM18609/01.D'Allemagne gives the publisher as Firmin-Didot frères et Cie. However the British Museum copy has a B.P. Grimaud & Cie wrapper with their pack.

* English playing cards. Standard pattern type I, Brotherton, circa 1816, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), single figure courts, Garter type A4 ace of spades (die no.19, 2nd recut), ace of clubs with Extra Superfine stamp, dust-soiled and toned, some brown stains and minor marks, AS and JS with a couple of tiny edge tears, versos plain white, each card 92 x 63 mm, together with: Standard pattern type BW3, Perry & Co, circa 1865, a complete deck of 52 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts, many with red lips, AS (Perry type 1) with maker's details, each card with two pencilled indices, browned and dust-soiled, very lightly bowed, some (generally minor) marks, few cards with tiny edge wear, QH with short closed edge tear, slightly rounded corners, versos plain blue, each card 92 x 64 mm, plus: Standard pattern type BW2 varient, Whitaker (?), circa 1855, 51 (of 52, without ace of spades) colour lithographed (with some stencil colouring?) playing cards (French suits), full length courts, decorative overlay to all courts and pip signs, soiled and marked, occasional minor wear or surface abrasion, 3C slightly dented, square corners, versos elaborate ornamental in red, gold and blue, each card 95 x 64 mm, with: two mid 19th century Patience sets, both double-pack sets, each presented in a flat hinged-lid box with hidden brass catch, each with label (rubbed) of E.C. Spurin, London on the box underside, the first set with imitation woodblock full length courts, a garden spade ace of spades and one ordinary ace of spades, versos peach with gold zigzags for one pack and blue with a gold stars trellis pattern (3 pip cards soiled, one 8H & one 4D creased), the blue pack appears to have 2 additional kings of diamonds (one with E.C. Spurin label on recto), box covered in maroon morocco, simple embossed design on lid, patterned paper interior, each card 56 x 40 mm, the second set with type BW4 full length courts, two garden spade aces of spades, versos white with gold dots, lines and diamonds, and pink with gold floral pattern (two pip cards with faint blue finger-soiling), box covered in maroon morocco, lid with simple gilt design and gilt-lettered Patience, gilt lines to sides, blue watered silk interior, each card 57 x 40 mm, and another Standard type BW3 deck, Perry & Co, circa 1868, 51 of 52 (without 9 of clubs), colourful Perry ace of spades type 2, soiled and toned (mostly affecting pip cards), much surface wear to 10S (with some black ink re-colouring), square corners, versos green and red ornamental pattern, each card 92 x 64 mm, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 5 display boards/cards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 41 cm and similarQTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Plainbacks B28.Second item: Plainbacks M6. It is believed that Perry's cards were made by Steer, who produced packs that were identical except for the wording on the ace of spades.Third item: Plainbacks F67. Without the ace of spades it is difficult to be certain this is not a later pack imported by Benda. However, our back design is identical to that of Ken Lodge's pack 780, illustrated on the World of Playing Cards website: Brotherton, Whitaker, Benda, Perry & Willis. This verso was also used elsewhere including in Turnhout, and it is likely these cards were actually produced in Belgium and imported by Whitaker. Fourth items: See World of Playing Cards website, 36: Minor Makers of the 19th Century, for a patience pack identical to our set with BW4 courts, attributed to Whitaker. These card makers or suppliers all seem to be linked, using several of the same designs. Whitaker joined and then took over from Brotherton, but the exact relationship between them and Perry/Steer & Benda is unclear.

* French playing cards. Year II Lyon Revolutionary pattern, Lyon: Anton Manus, 1793-94, a complete piquet deck of 32 stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (French suits), kings portraying Génies des Arts / de la Guerre / de la Paix / du Commerce, queens representing Liberté and jacks Égalité, JC with maker's name, dusty, variable toning, some minor brown marks or spots, two pips cards with small surface abrasion to blank area, AS with small corner crease, versos plain white, thin single layer cards, 85 x 57 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, together with: Revolutionary Courts - Paris pattern, France: unknown maker, circa 1793, 12 court cards only, stencil coloured woodcut (French suits), all royal symbols removed or replaced, eg. hats instead of crowns, all with worm damage (mostly extensive), mainly affecting lower right areas, 84 x 56 mm, all cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, plus: Paris pattern, Paris: Jounin, circa 1835, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts, KD with maker's details, dusty, variable toning, some brown marks and edge staining, 4D with larger pale stain, QD & QS with small surface abrasion (affecting wrist of QD), JC with short closed edge tear (sometime repaired), versos blue dotted wiggly lines, each card 83 x 54 mm, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, each board encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cm, with 3 single court cards, all 'corrected' French Revolutionary patterns, circa 1790, comprising KH holding La Loi book (some tiny dents and punctures), with ink manuscript food bill on verso, JH holding rifle (defective), KC with Egalite (2 small punctures), contained together in a clear pocketed album leafQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.

* English playing cards. Shakespearean Playing Cards, Swan Sonnenschein & Co Ltd, 1904, a complete deck of 52 + 1 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-ended courts portraying characters from Shakespeare's plays, designed by Frederic Colin Tilney, with joker representing the jester Touchstone, each named and with suitable quote alongside, decorative ace of spades with maker's details amidst swans and Tudor roses in wreaths, a trifle dusty and toned, occasional light rubbing, 2C slightly finger-soiled, rounded corners, versos elaborate yellow and white on dark blue pattern of swans within captioned border, each card 92 x 61 mm, with original box, 16 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 53.5 x 40.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry, The Playing-Cards of the World, [457]; Cartorama 62 #189.This pack, although published by Swan Sonnenschein, was printed by Bemrose & Sons Ltd as stated on the ace of spades.

* French playing cards. Cartes Historiques, Paris: Mlle Hautot & M. Paris, circa 1865, a complete deck of 52 chromolithographed and gilt playing cards (modified French suits), heart and diamond suit signs as gilt outlines containing birds or fruits respectively, clubs gilt with overprinted violas, pike-heads instead of spades, single figure courts in historical costume, with traditional Paris pattern names, KD with B.S.G.D.G. to bottom corner, dusty, some toning and (generally minor) marks or spots, JH with faint edge crease, square corners, gilt edges, versos plain pale green, each card 98 x 62 mm, 20 cards mounted with photo corners onto a display board, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of board), the remainder in a plastic bag, the board 54.5 x 40 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry, Playing-Cards of the World [499]; Cartorama 63 #71; Cary, FRA 348; Verame (1989), illustrated p.70.Verame calls these cards Jeu de l'Antiquité et de la Légende. Berry details how the booklet which accompanies the pack he lists enables him to date their production to around 1865, and also how the patent (BSGDG) associated with this design was registered in 1863. Apparently they were printed by Hangard-Maugé.

* French tarot cards. Tarot de Marseille, Jean-Baptiste Madenié: Dijon, circa 1739, a mixed pack of 69 (of 78, without trump III, 1 & 10 of swords, 1 & 5 of cups, 2 & 4 of coins, 3 & 5 of batons) stencil coloured woodblock playing cards, full-length court cards named in French, full-length trump cards with Roman numerals above and French title below, trump VII and 2 of cups with maker's initials BM, generally toned with some spotting and brown marks, some finger-soiling, most trump cards and 9 courts with single wormhole to upper left corner (becoming a short wormtrail in 3 of the courts), 5 of coins with brown staining at ends, 8 of batons creased, versos black on white arms of the House of Bourbon-Condé in a grid pattern, each card 117 x 60 mm, 42 cards mounted with photo corners onto 2 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of boards), the remainder contained in a plastic bag, the boards 42 x 59.5 cm, together with another identical part-pack of 33 cards (plus the 9 cards given to the first pack), comprising: trumps I, VI, X, XIII, XV, XVII-XVIIII, XXI; courts Q, Cav & V of cups, the same of swords and of coins, all batons courts; and 11 numeral cardsQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.World of Playing Cards: Perspectives on the History of Tarot webpage. See also British Museum 1896,0501.590.1-56 (Schreiber, French 4) for an earlier part-deck by Pierre Madenié (lacking all trump cards).The larger mixed pack is the combination of a deck of 60 cards (comprising all trumps except trump III, plus Fool or Le Mat, all courts, and 23 numeral cards) with 9 numeral cards from the second (identical) pack: 3, 8 & 10 of coins; 1 & 6-10 batons.

* French tarot cards. Tarot de Besançon, Jean Jerger: Besançon, circa 1810, the complete deck of 78 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards, comprising 4 suits of 14 (Italian suits), full-length court cards named in French, each with maker's name stamp, numeral cards with II-X twice, 2 of cups with maker's details, 1 of coins with maker's initials, plus 22 trump cards, comprising 21 full-length named trumps I-XXI and Le Fou, each with maker's name stamp, trump VII with initials J.I.A.B., some minor browning (mainly affecting edges), scarce pale spotting, 1 of swords with small brown mark at top, versos mottled pink, each card 121 x 66 mm, 49 cards mounted with photo corners onto 3 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of boards), the remainder contained in a plastic bag, the boards 42 x 59.5 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Berry, Playing-Cards of the World [50]; British Museum 1881,0409.33-109 (maker incorrectly named Jacob Jerger?); Kaplan, Encyclopedia of Tarot vol II, pp.341-342; Ortiz-Patiño #142.

* English playing cards. Standard pattern Faro/Bassette pack, Edward Hall, circa 1803, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), reduced size with wide borders, single-figured courts with type I eyes, Garter type A4a ace of spades (die no.4), two court cards with a tiny brown mark to blank border, KD with very small area of surface abrasion to blank border, versos plain white, each card 87 x 57 mm, together with: Standard pattern type II, Hall & Son, circa 1810, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), single-figure courts, KH with initials HC to axe haft, Garter type A5 ace of spades (die no.76, 1st recut), AC with Superfine ink stamp, lightly toned and dusty, two small wormholes affecting 4 court cards and 3 pip cards, several pip cards and 2 court cards with surface loss affecting suit signs (black pips sometimes neatly re-coloured), on QD also slightly affecting bottom of costume, gilt edges, versos plain white, each card 88 x 61 mm, plus: Standard pattern type HB2, Hall & Bancks, circa 1830, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), single-figure courts, Old Frizzle ace of spades, lightly toned and dusty, 6H & 8H with some brown marks, minor mark to KH upper border, versos plain green-blue, each card 93 x 64 mm, with a Hall & Bancks Piquet deck, circa 1830, 30 (of 32, without QC & 8D), type II courts, with clean-shaven kings & jacks, Old Frizzle AS, lightly toned and dusty, AS with light brown mark horizontally, 7H with short crease, versos plain blue, each card 85 x 58 mm, and another 20 English late 19th-early 20th century decks, comprising: 4 packs by Bancks Brothers late Hunt, circa 1865-1880, including 1 pack with HB1 courts, one with HB1.1, and two with HB6 type courts - one being smaller format and printed in turquoise/red/yellow; five Goodall packs, circa 1860-1902), including one double-ended standard pattern with Old Frizzle and fuchsias versos, one Scientific Whist deck, Historic Playing Cards deck (with original box plus 2 advertising slips), Historic Shakespeare pack (with original box), Japanesque Playing Cards (with original box); one Heartsette pack, by Herbert Fitch of London, 1883 (with original box & rules booklet); De La Rue pack with Goodall AS (circa 1925); and 9 London Playing Card Company packs (one lacking KC, another without 3D & 8H), including a Copechat Paramount Sorting System deck, some with original box, all complete unless mentioned above, various conditions, a quantity of cards from all but one deck mounted with photo corners onto 15 display boards/cards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cm and similar QTY: (24)

* French transformation playing cards. Cartes á Rire, Jeu des Journaux, Paris: Grandebes, circa 1819, 48 (of 52, without QC, A & 4 & KS) hand coloured engraved and captioned playing cards (French suits), designs attributed to Baron Louis Athalin, full-length courts representing Parisian newspapers, pip cards with humerous scenes, 7D probably added from another deck, dusty, somewhat soiled and marked, some stains, few (mainly corner) creases, 5D with closed 1cm ege tear, versos plain white, each card 90 x 61 mm, with original (very damaged) two-part box, label of A. Giroux & Cie, Paris to inner lip, together with: Belgian Animal Tarot, Ghent: J. De Porre, circa 1795, a shortened deck of 52 stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (French suits), comprising 12 courts (without caveliers) and 40 pip cards only (without trumps), single figure court cards, JS holding an armorial, JH with armorial and banner giving maker's details, some toning and spotting (mainly to pips), JH darkened and dusty, versos red dots and dotted flowers, each card 110 x 60 mm, plus: Spanish Archaic Pattern, Bayonne: Bernain (Antoine Joseph?), circa 1812, 36 (of 48, without 3, 4 & 5 of each suit) stencil coloured woodcut playing cards (Spanish suits), single figure courts, each stamped with 'France' and 'Bernain', some toning, courts and aces each with faint impression of a previous ownership signature, 7 of swords with some pale brown staining, versos plain white, each card 87 x 58 mm, and with another part pack: Theatrical playing cards, Strasbourg: Pflüger, circa 1850, 12 (of 52) hand coloured wood engraved playing cards (French suits), comprising all courts except QH and only one ace (diamonds), double-ended courts portraying named characters from theatre plays, each with central bar containing 'France Pflüger Strasbourg', the ace showing two scenes from 'Don Quichotte', lightly toned, corner chips and wear, JC with small stained surface abrasion to blank area, versos pale pink dotted swirls, each card 87 x 61 mm, a quantity of cards from each pack mounted with photo corners onto 5 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 59 x 42 cm and similarQTY: (4)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: D'Allemagne, Les Cartes á Jouer... I, pp.260-264; Berry, Playing-Cards of the World [71] & [659]; British Museum 1896,0501.731.1-52 (Schreiber, French 97); Cary, FRA 325; Field #27; Morley pp.120-122; WWPCM00582.Second item: Mann, All Cards on the Table #221.

* French playing cards. Lyon pattern, France: unknown maker, circa 1740, 31 (of 32, without 9D, and probably 7S added from another deck) stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), some light toning, 10C toned, 9C with small brown spot, versos plain white, each card 83 x 55 mm, together with: Languedoc pattern, Toulouse: Jacques (probably) Lamarque, circa 1750, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), JC with maker's name Lamarque, all cards sometime folded horizontally and stapled (staples since removed), dusty, some toning, occasional spotting or minor marks, some cards with fleur-de-lis watermark, versos plain white, each card 76 x 50, 16 cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 2 display boards, encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 42 cm and similarQTY: (2)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.Second item: Cary, FRA 79.

* English playing cards. Standard pattern type I, Henry Hart, circa 1780, a complete deck of 52 stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), single figure courts, KH with faint initials HC to axe-haft, Exportation Garter type A8 ace of spades with QVI (die no.44, 1st recut), one way pips, browned, rubbed and soiled, 3 pip cards & JC with worming centrally (that to JC not full thickness), 2 pip cards & KC with single worm hole centrally, 2 pip cards & KS with small surface loss (from single worm graze), some slight delaminating (interestingly revealing 4 layers, not the 3 expected), versos plain white, each card 94 x 64 mm, together with: Standard pattern type II, Josiah Stone, circa 1812, 51 (of 52, without 10 of diamonds) stencil coloured woodblock playing cards (French suits), single figure courts, KH with initials HM to axe-haft, Garter type A5 ace of spades (die no.9, not recut), browned, soiled and worn, some creases and corner losses, larger loss to 5S (one suit sign lost), additional 5D (from another similar pack), versos plain white, each card 93 x 64 mm, with contemporary two-piece box covered in patterned paper, plus: Standard pack extension cards, unknown makers, circa 1810?, three sets of 24 woodblock playing cards, each apparently made to extend a standard pack for an as yet unknown game, each set with 3 suits of 8 (French suits), comprising pip cards 11-18 in hearts, clubs and diamonds only, the first set with the usual layout of pip signs and an additional central X to each card (ie. 10 + a number of pips from one to 8), one set with a single pip sign to each card and the Arabic numerals 11-18 beneath, and the final set similar to the second but cards 11 & 12 each with 11 or 12 pip signs instead of a numeral, the first set browned and soiled, second set with very scarce minor spots, third set lightly toned, a little dusty, very scarce minor spots, versos plain white, each card 93 x 64 mm (1st set) or 92 x 63 mm (2nd & 3rd sets), with: Standard pattern pack, James English, circa 1880, a complete deck of 52 colour lithographed playing cards (French suits), double-figure type E2 courts, English type E2.2 ace of spades, indices, toned, soiled and worn, some tears and losses, rounded corners, versos with portrait of a Victorian army general (possibly Wolseley) within decorative border, in pale burgundy, each card 88 x 63 mm, and with a pack from the Peerless Card Co., circa 1885, 48 (of 52, without K & JC, Q & 10D), poor condition, plus a deck by Hunt's Card Manufacturing Company Ltd, circa 1875, 52 complete, type H1 courts, soiled, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 6 display boards/cards, encapsulated in clear plastic (not examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 42 cm and similarQTY: (8)NOTE:Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis.First item: Plainbacks A30. Hart aces of spades can often be found with cards made by other (sometimes American) makers. However this appears to be a genuine Hart deck and therefore an relatively uncommon survival from this 18th century card maker. Second item: Fournier, British 107; Plainbacks B7.Third item(s): These cards apparently were produced for an unknown card game in which the spades and court cards would be discarded from a standard pack, and the remaining suits extended to 18 by using these cards.

A late 18th century Dutch marquetry card tableThe fold-over top inlaid with a flower filled urn and scrolling foliage supporting a squirrels, the interior with square playing surface surrounded by inlaid parquetry banding, over a faux frieze drawer inlaid with further flowers and foliage, raised on tapering moulded square-section supports with openwork spandrels.75cm wide x 38cm deep (76cm open) x 71cm highCondition:Top slightly warped. A small area of missing inlay to a flower bud in the top. Front left spandrel re-glued. Back left spandrel missing. Minor cosmetic marks consistent with age and use. Baize skiver faded and discoloured.

A George II walnut and oak concertina-action card table, the interior playing surface having burr yew wood dishes to the corners and recessed counter wells. Condition- good overall, some slight losses, splits and minor repairs.

PLEASE NOTE THESE MAY BE BRITISH AND POSSIBLY MINTON!A set of four French 18th Century style porcelain cups and saucers, hand painted harlequin floral patterns red painted patterns numbers and impressed marks. 6.5 cm high (cups) 14 diameters saucers. Small chip to bottom of one saucer The cups and saucers are in very good condition. There is some rubbing to the gilding as expected, commensurate with age and usage. There is a barely detectible, miniscule mark within the inner gilt rim of the pink colourway cup - to call it a fleabite would be an exaggeration. There is a very small chip (approx 3mm x 3 mm) to the underside of the rim of the pink colourway saucer, this cannot be seen from the top. All cups and saucers ring true and there are seemingly no cracks or hairlines. The marks are not consistent to the cups and saucers and the impressed marks where visible cannot be easily deciphered - they may be a horseshoe or playing card suit.