Found in the attic this weekend, in a tin box, packs of playing cards. None of your usual aces and clubs and jacks and kings though. How you play the games is a mystery. There were no instructions apart from one set which spelt out how you dealt a card to your left and then if the person to your right picked up a card and then moved the card to the pile in the middle beside the person to the right of the person on your right then the person on the left of you did something and I dunno, it was all very confusing.
They had images like ‘Cookey’, picturing a sweating, middle-aged woman making dinner in the servants kitchen. ‘My maiden aunt’, a spinster looking lady, and ‘The Dandy’ featuring a man with a monocle and a top hat.
I have not the first clue where they came from, they look very old indeed. How old? Well, here were two of the cards in this fun game for all the family!
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And no, there’s no prize for a joke about the ace of spades.
If That Feynman with the whip?
Is..
Not that old.
In fact they were hand-drawn by the Duke of Edinburgh just last Christmas.
haha
Not exactly PC, are they?
Fill – unless the guy behind has got a big dildo and a tub of lard, I doubt it’s Feynman
And he’s not wearing a pink shirt
The second one looks like the Robinsons’ Gollywog – perhaps they came with that. You used to be able to collect labels for badges and toys.
Robinson’s “Ye Good Olde Days”, a cracking two-hand game for honky jam eaters.
I’m guessing the game was Beat Your Neighbour
I’d like to accidently drop them on the floor of a ’96 Nissan Almera taxi.
Interesting snowman by the way Twenty
Thanks Christy!
Why such a specific make and model of taxi, HM?
he is being a racialist…
Oh for the good old days when darkies were property. Gone, but not forgotten.
Thats what teh church never told our parents. All those ‘pennies for the black baby’ were going in to ‘taxi-driving in Dublin’ reserve fund.
We are where we are.
Top Trumps ‘Roots’ edition?
In the bottom picture is that Kunt one of the Kunta Kites?
Enid Blyton’s playing cards.
Union City Blue. Original Single. just magnificent!
You have a samll fortune on your hands there Twenty – believe it or not the biggest buyers of this kind of ‘Uncle Tom’ memorabilia are US African-Americans. If this set is what I think it is – and I will have to do some checking after Christmas – I should be able to line up a buyer if you agree to a ten percent commission for yours truly. Please can you put up more photos and description of packaging and if there are any printers marks on what looks like the joker…
A christmas name for Twenty
Twenty Manger
Ive a card dedicated to me ..the Dandy ..IIiiiii Sayyyyy
10% commission, heh.
Will have a proper look at them at some stage, Gluey.
From what I’ve heard, Northern Ireland, circa 2000.
But they’ll still fetch a fortune here in the States.