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Antique and Vintage Playing Cards, Cribbage Boards, Whist Markers, Trump Indicators, Game Boxes, and Other Card Game Items
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$115 USDCharles Goodall "The Cribbage Board," No. 2297, c.1900
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:Goodall 2297
Extremely handsome cribbage board made by Charles Goodall & Son, Ltd., c.1900, called simply "The Cribbage Board," and numbered 2297. It is inlaid with a variety of different woods, and has a rich patina. It was sold to me with 4 bone/ivory pegs – 2 that are a lavender/purple color that match and 2 that are white that do not – that are stored at either end in holes covered by metal swivels, and the pegs fit the peg holes reasonably well. The board sits on small brass feet, and the Goodall label ...
$100 USDSpears (Bavaria) “Snap” Card Set, English Designs, Hand Painted, “Grotesque Characters,” c.1880s
Antiques:Other Card Games:Spear "Snap"
Outstanding set of “Snap” cards, designed in England and hand colored by Spear of Bavaria, c.1880s, in the original box. The box says it all: “SNAP: A Most Diverting Game: Beautifully Coloured Cards of Grotesque Characters.” The designs are delightful, and the artwork is vivid and beautiful. Spear was founded in the late 1870s by Jacob Wolf Spear, and would become J.W. Spear & Sons in 1884. Spear is perhaps best known as an early producer of “Scrabble,” introducing it into the U.K. market. The ...
$165 USDTunbridge Ware Cribbage Board, c.1860
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:Tunbridge Ware
Excellent rosewood Tunbridge Ware cribbage board, made c.1860, with boxwood or other light wood veneer contrasting the tessellated mosaic. The center panel is a popular Berlin wool work floral pattern used in Tunbridge Ware items. It is bounded by a thin geometric band, which in turn is bounded by the cribbage streets, and the streets are then bounded by another thin geometric band around the edge. The board sits on four turned bun feet that are original, and there is a peg compartment on the ...
$185 USDTunbridge Ware Cribbage Board, c.1850
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:Tunbridge Ware (Tumbling Block)
Very beautiful rosewood Tunbridge Ware cribbage board, made c.1850, with boxwood or other light wood veneer and a rare tumbling block center panel that has at least six different woods represented. The center panel is bounded by a thin geometric band, which in turn is bounded by the cribbage streets. The board sits on four turned feet that appear to be original, and there is a peg compartment on the underside of the board that is likewise original. The board measures 9.3" in length by 2.8" in ...
$350 USDRound 3-Track Cribbage Board, MOP and Gem Inlays, c.1880-1900
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:Round W/ Mop And Gem Inlays
Extremely handsome and quite rare round 3-track cribbage board, featuring mother of pearl and small gem inlays. The large round central mother of pearl inlay has a faint etched design with an Asian man, similar to the kinds of images that are carved into Chinese ivory cribbage boards of the late 19th century. I am unable to capture this image in the photographs. There are also 3 triangular MOP inlays at the start/finish hole of each track, and at 5-hole intervals there are round metal inlays ...
$350 USDEnglish Cribbage Board, Wood and Ivory Inlays, c.1830
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:English 1830
Gorgeous large English cribbage board, made of birch wood c.1830 and featuring amboyna, satinwood, and ivory inlays. It measures approximately 14.0” by 5.3”, and sits on compressed bun feet. The board came to me without pegs, and I have supplied 4 contemporary bone/ivory pegs that fit the holes reasonably well. The holes are actually very close in size to standard holes on today’s cribbage boards, and contemporary wood pegs – readily available – can probably be used as well. There is a lidded ...
$175 USDGeo. C. Allis Silverplate Cribbage Board, "The Princeton," c.1890
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:Allis "The Princeton"
Striking silverplated 3-track cribbage board, named "The Princeton." Although the underside of the board is stamped "Mfg By Geo. C. Allis Derby, CT," according to the Derby Historical Society, George C. Allis was actually a longtime shopkeeper in Derby, who advertised in 1890 that he sold fine watches, jewelry, optical goods, books, and stationary. It is doubtful that he engaged in manufacturing of his own. At that time (end of 19th century) there were many silverplate companies in Connecticut. ...
$175 USDUSPC Congress 606 Playing Cards, Russell & Morgan, "Good Night" Matching Joker c.1900
Antiques:Playing Cards U.S:Uspc Congress 606
Excellent, rare deck of Congress 606 playing cards, made by United States Playing Card Co., at Russell & Morgan Factories, c.1900. The Ace of Spades used in this deck is said by Dawson/Hochman to be "[t]he earliest USPC, Russell & Morgan Factories Ace of Spades." The backs are of a painting showing a little girl in a nightgown and cap with a candle, undoubtedly an American painting of that approximate time, although I do not recognize it. The Joker is a matching Joker, matching the backs, with ...
$600 USDVictorian Boulle Cribbage Board and Game Box, w/ French Ivory Playing Surface c.1870-1900
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:Victorian Boulle
Absolutely stunning and unique cribbage board and game box. It is tempting to assert that this outstanding item was made in France, as there is boulle marquetry on each side of the playing surface of the cribbage board; however, in the 4th quarter of the 19th century boulle or buhl marquetry work could be seen on items made in England and other European countries, in addition to France. It is also tempting to describe the piece as a Napoleon III piece, but frankly that seems too early. This is ...
$750 USDNapoleonic Prisoner of War Bone Box w/ Cribbage Streets, Shell Inlays, c.1802-1815
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:Napoleonic Bone Box
Small rectangular bone box with cribbage streets and shell inlays. It was not sold to me as a Napoleonic prisoner of war product, and I am not an expert in POW art and artifacts. However, it is virtually identical in size, look, and design (with differences in condition) to a Napoleonic POW box from the Kaplan Collection offered at auction at Christie’s in 2006, and so is thus described here. For those who have the catalogue of the sale of the Kaplan Collection at Christie’s, “Historic Cards and ...
$135 USDGoodall "Atlantic Ocean to the Head of the Great Lakes" Playing Cards, c.1906
Antiques:Playing Cards U.K:Goodall "Ocean To Lakes"
Outstanding deck of "Atlantic Ocean to the Head of the Great Lakes" cards, a Canada souvenir deck but made by Chas. Goodall & Son, c.1906, in the original box. There are 52 cards, plus a Joker, plus a backed blank card. All cards except the Joker are pictorial, depicting scenes of Eastern Canada along the route of the Grand Trunk Railway. The cards are wide (89mm x 65mm), with gold gilt around. The cards come with a terrific leather and metal "bookshelf" type case. The shell is metal -- tin or ...
$75 USD“A Grand Slam” Calendar, Hills & Co. (London) Publisher, c.1906
Antiques:Ephemera:Calendar
Stunning calendar for the year 1907, titled, “A Grand Slam,” printed by Hills & Co. of London. It consists of 4 “pages” on sturdy cardboard, tied at the top by strings. The first covered the month of January, the second the months of February through April, the third the months of May through August, and the fourth the months of September through December. Each featured a gorgeous tipped-in plate on a bridge theme: • For January, four men stranded on a tiny island surrounded by water, playing ...
$75 USDLoiseaux Bros. “Illustrated Game of Bible Names” Card Game, c.1890
Antiques:Other Card Games:Loiseaux "Bible Names"
Elegant and reverential card game published by Loiseaux Brothers of New York c.1890, titled, “Illustrated Game of Bible Names for Old and Young,” in the original box. The game includes 98 cards, including the “Star” (wild) card, plus a card with the “Directions.” I am not certain that 98 is a full set, but would note that the cards fill the box to the top. The game is essentially a Bible education game, with each card containing several questions about a particular name (usually a person, ...
$500 USDFrommann & Bunte Transformation Playing Cards, c.1860
Antiques:Playing Cards Germany:Frommann & Bunte Transformation
NOTE: The description of these cards has been modified. Fine, complete deck of the famous transformation cards published by Frommann & Bunte, c.1860. The designs are printed in brown ink, thought to be the earliest of the editions of this deck published, with the letters M and F appearing inside the outer pips of the 8 of Diamonds. This deck has 19 designs in common with the Braun & Schneider sheets published in Germany in or about 1850, 23 designs in common with the Jeanne l’Hachette deck ...
$750 USDAnglo-Indian Game Counter Box w/ Ivory Lac Counters, Vizagapatam Region, c.1860
Antiques:Game Counters Box:Anglo Indian (Square)
A beautiful horn, ivory and sandalwood games counter box, made in the Vizagapatam region of British India, c.1860, for sale to the British market. The box is a square shape, with a very slightly “domed” lid, and with sandalwood carcass veneered in horn and beaded ivory strapping, inlay and fretwork. The interior has four ivory-bordered sandalwood “blocks” – two that are square and two that are oblong – that lift out. Each “block” houses ivory game counters – four round game counters in each of ...
$50 USDMcLoughlin Bros. "Wonderful Joe" Game, c.1895
Antiques:Mc Loughlin Bros. Games:"Wonderful Joe"
Excellent but incomplete (23/24 cards) "Wonderful Joe" game, in original box, made by McLoughlin Bros., the renowned American printer and game manufacturer, c.1895. John McLoughlin produced card games in New York as early as 1850. His first card games were attractively hand-painted, in what was an early form of an assembly line--the line drawings were passed from artist to artist with each one responsible for coloring in one of the colors. In 1858 McLoughlin formed McLoughlin Brothers, a company ...
$165 USDUSPC “Stage #65” Playing Cards, c.1908
Antiques:Playing Cards U.S:Uspc "Stage #65"
Superb set of “Stage #65” playing cards made by United States Playing Card Co. c.1908, the most beautiful of the “Stage #65” decks, in the original telescope box. There is a theatre star on each card, centered in half tone oval photos framed in gold, with an autograph beneath each oval; these ovals are bordered on each side vertically by four different floral arrangements, one for each suit. The backs are also half toned, and the entire deck has a wonderful “art nouveau” feeling to it. The deck ...
$150 USDDouble Deck Dondorf Playing Cards, "Rokoko" No. 158, w/ Dondorf Double Box, c.1894
Antiques:Playing Cards Germany:Dondorf 158 Double ("Rokoko")
Excellent double deck of Dondorf's "Rokoko" cards, No. 158, c.1894, with beautiful court cards and floral backs, in a wonderful Dondorf telescope double box. There is no tax stamp on either deck. The Jack of Clubs reads "B. Dondorf" and "Frankfort a/m,” and there are no indices. The decks are complete at 52 cards (never a joker), and the cards are slightly small by contemporary standards, measuring 85mm by 58mm. The cards are in excellent condition, without issues and quite clean. The box is in ...
$275 USDMauchline Ware Cribbage Board – Transfer, Tartan, and Hand-Colored Lithograph Finishes, c.1860
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:Mauchline Ware
Outstanding Mauchline Ware (Scottish) cribbage board, unusual in that it employs three different finishes commonly associated with this craft. First there are two transfer ware prints with different views of Buxton Gardens, a popular Derbyshire vacation spot in the 19th century and today. Second, there are tartan ware strips between the peg streets; I will not even hazard a guess at the family/clan. Finally, the playing cards in the center appear to have been created by a hand-colored ...
$165 USDUSPC Congress 606 Playing Cards, Russell & Morgan, Eakin's "Spinning Wheel" Matching Joker c.1900
Antiques:Playing Cards U.S:Uspc Congress 606
Outstanding, rare deck of Congress 606 playing cards, made by United States Playing Card Co., at Russell & Morgan Factories, c.1900. The Ace of Spades used in this deck is said by Dawson/Hochman to be "[t]he earliest USPC, Russell & Morgan Factories Ace of Spades." The backs are undoubtedly of a "Spinning Wheel" painting by Thomas Eakins, and the Joker is a matching Joker, matching the backs, with the title "Spinning Wheel" at the bottom. The cards are gold gilt on all sides and in excellent ...
$100 USDMauchline Ware Bezique Counter, Tartan Ware Finish, c.1870s
Antiques:Bezique Items:Tartan Ware Bezique Counter
A beautiful Mauchline Ware bezique counter, with a Tartan Ware finish, made c.1870s. It appears to me to be the Stuart Tartan, but I am hardly an expert on Scottish Tartans. It is small, measuring approximately 2.9” to the vertical and 2.0” to the horizontal. It came to me without pegs, and I have supplied 2 matching bone pegs that fit the small peg holes well. They are not as nice as the piece itself, but are the best I can offer. The pegs are stored in holes in the side of the counter, covered ...
Antiques:Playing Cards U.S:Dougherty "Excelsior" Bezique Set
Rare bezique set made by Andrew Dougherty c.1870s, including four bezique decks (32 cards each) with the “Excelsior” Ace of Spades. Two of the decks have identical (blue) backs, and two of the decks have identical designs, but different colors, on the backs. The cards are wide (91mm x 64mm), with square corners, 2-sided court cards, and no indices. The cards are accompanied by 2 “Card Game Recording Dials” made by A.B. Swift of New York. These counters are designed to score euchre, whist and ...
$125 USDSouth African Railways and Harbours “Souvenir Playing Cards of South Africa,” c.1905
Antiques:Playing Cards South Africa:Railways And Harbours "Souvenir"
Exceptional set of cards published by the South African Railways and Harbours Publicity Department c.1905, titled “Souvenir Playing Cards of South Africa,” in the original box. There are 52 cards, plus a Joker, and a backed blank card, with each card but the blank card containing an oval photograph depicting a South African scene. The backs show a statue of Cape Town’s founder Johan Van Riebeek, a statue that stands today on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. In addition, there is a pamphlet ...
Antiques:Playing Cards U.S:Uspc Congress 606
Wonderful, rare deck of Congress 606 playing cards, made by United States Playing Card Co., at Russell & Morgan Factories, c.1901. The Ace of Spades used in this deck is said by Dawson/Hochman to be "[t]he earliest USPC, Russell & Morgan Factories Ace of Spades." The backs are from the famous painting of Martha Washington by Gilbert Stuart in the collection of the National Gallery, and the Joker is a matching Joker, matching the backs, and with the name Martha Washington at the bottom. The cards ...
$825 USDFrench Piquet Playing Cards, Hand Colored, Single Ended, c.1820 (1816 Gatteaux)
Antiques:Playing Cards France:1820 Piquet
Outstanding set of hand colored cards, with single ended courts, square corners, no indices, made in France c.1820. The Gatteaux shield is dated 1816, and Fournier dates these courts to the years 1816-1832. The backs are a jigsaw pattern. The set is complete at 32 cards, probably made for Piquet (or perhaps Bezique), and the cards are small, measuring 83mm x 54mm. There is no wrapper. The cards are in excellent condition, lightly soiled throughout, but otherwise without issues or problems. The ...
$250 USDFrench Carved Wood Quadrille Box (“Boite À Quadrille”), c.1750
Antiques:Game Box:Quadrille
In the 18th century one of the most popular card games in Europe was Quadrille, a four handed adaptation of the classic three person game of Hombre. It originated in France, but soon was played throughout Continental Europe, eventually migrating to England. Toward the end of the 18th century it gave way to Boston Whist, and by the first quarter of the 19th century was very much in decline. A description of the history of the game and its complex rules of play can be found at David Parlett’s ...
$100 USDDouble Deck Dondorf “Baronesse” No. 163 Patience Playing Cards, Theissinger Custom Box, c.1890s
Antiques:Playing Cards Germany:Dondorf 163 ("Baronesse") (2)
Excellent double deck of Dondorf “Baronesse” No. 163 patience playing cards. The decks are in their original card boxes, and both card boxes are in a custom “Patience” box made for Theissinger, the renowned Frankfurt stationer. The card boxes, in turn, are interesting because, while they bear the Dondorf No. 163, a “Baronesse” number, and contain “Baronesse” cards, they also have “Cartes pour Dames” written on the sides. “Cartes pour Dames” is the name generally associated with Dondorf No. 27 ...
$200 USDDouble Deck C.L. Wüst “House Pattern” Playing Cards, c.1880s
Antiques:Playing Cards Germany:C.L. Wust "House Pattern"
Beautiful double deck of C.L. Wüst “House Pattern” playing cards, with an “old eagle” tax stamp used during the period 1879-1888. The courts are the courts of what Shaw and Symons call “House Pattern Type 1,” but the Aces of these decks are simple aces and do not portray German scenes. Each deck is complete at 52 cards (never a Joker). The cards are have square corners, without indices, and are on wonderful card stock. The cards are large, measuring 93mm x 63mm, and come in the original box. The ...
$2,250 USDUSPC “Norwood 85” Playing Cards (51/52 + J), “The Storm” Back Design (Pierre-Auguste Cot), c.1909
Antiques:Playing Cards U.S:Uspc "Norwood 85"
Extremely rare deck of cards made by the United States Playing Card Company, c.1909, called “Norwood 85.” The deck is described thus by Dawson/Hochman: “This deck, in modified Whist size, is thought by many who have seen it to be the most beautiful ever made by USPC. It features a colorful Ace of Spades, decorated aces, unique courts, and two beautiful back designs. It does not appear to have ever been listed in a catalogue, or to have been advertised for sale. It might have been made as a ...
$250 USDLate Georgian or Early Victorian English Cribbage Board, c.1830s
Antiques:Cribbage Boards:English
Gorgeous English cribbage board made of mahogany, with alternating ebony and boxwood inlays on the streets and end holes. The seller to me dated the board “early 19th century.” I think it is late Georgian or early Victorian, and have dated it accordingly. The workmanship on this board is very beautiful. The end holes are rimmed with “eyelet” inlays that appear to me to be ivory. There is a metal (perhaps pewter, conceivably silver) inlay in the center panel with the initials M.D., suggesting the ...
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