#vintage playing card

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💐 Vintage swap card 💐

Swap cards started being marketed in the in the 1960s, primarily targeting a female audience. These cards, adorned with "girly" illustrations, allowed girls to collect and exchange individual cards to complete matching sets. The trend even led to the creation and sale of albums designed specifically for storing these card collections.

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A little take on the vintage playing cards

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United States Playing Card Co, 1952

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Playing cards dealt through time -- my playing cards gallery.

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Victorian playing card. The front of the card has a colour picture of a musk deer, and the reverse has a clue to the identity of the animal depicted on the front: 'Who lives alone and is very shy?'.

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Jewish men playing cards, 1930s.

Photo: Lusha Nelson via Invaluable Auctions

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Wenzell Brown - How To Tell Fortunes With Cards - Paperback Library - 1968

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Physogs card game · 1940s

Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · original storage for the game

Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Face / frame card (1 of 4)

Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Playing cards (eyes - nose - mouth)

Physogs or having fun with a very sexist, misogynist and racist game; not surprising at all from a game based on a “science” like physiognomy.

Physogs, the Novel Card Game (1940s) · Playing cards (eyes - nose - mouth) Physogs, a British game from the 1940s, is a popularized version of physiognomy, the art of judging human character from facial features. Based on sociologist Jacques Penry's How to Judge Character from the Face (1939), the game consists of fifty-six...

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Obsessed with these cards illustrated by Pierre Jacquot

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Playing My Cards by Eddie Chan

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