SOLD FOR £190
A Victorian games compendium comprising a Staunton chess set, drafts set, 18 bone dominoes, rosewood and bone crib board, 2 bone marks, 8 dice together with a set of Blue Star playing cards, lead models of horses (all a/f), turned wooden die shaker (chips to rim), 2 bone dice, approx. 17 circular counters, 2 circular wooden bowls, wooden gavel, 2 card Bezique scorers, 2 long and short whist scorers (1 has damage to bottom corner), 5 Bell and Gavel cards, a 1933 edition of D W & HOW Wills Selected Patience Games and 1 volume of "Guide To Compendium Games" (sellotape repair to spine), double sided chess, backgammon and steeple chase board (some scuffing in places) all contained in a mahogany box 17cm h x 32cm w x 21cm d
SOLD FOR £100
Wills cigarette cards, Wild Animals of The World (1900) W.15, grey scroll back, playing card inset, a complete set of 52
SOLD FOR £95
Wills overseas cigarette cards, Beauties - heads and shoulders set in background (1911) playing card inset W.141, Star, Circle and Leaves issue, a complete set of 52
SOLD FOR £75
An Edwardian silver dome topped box Chester 1909 5cm, 34 grams, containing 2 packs of miniature playing cards
SOLD FOR £160
Wills cigarette cards - Soldiers of the World (1895-7 W.12), a complete set without playing card and without "LD"
SOLD FOR £140
Wills overseas cigarette cards - Jockeys and Owners Colours with playing card inset, Scissors Issue (1914) a complete set of 53
SOLD FOR £300
Wills overseas cigarette cards, Sporting Girls 1913 W.331, a complete set of 30 plus 2 duplicates together with Beauties - head and shoulders set in background 1911 W.141 with playing card inset, Scissors Issue, plain packet background, a complete set of 52
SOLD FOR £150
Wills overseas cigarette cards, several complete sets to include Beauties head and shoulders set in background 1911 W.141, playing card insets, Scissors Issue with lattice work design, Beauties - Picture Hats 1914 W.144 Scissors Issue, Dancing Girls 1915 W.180 Series A and Series B
SOLD FOR £130
Wills cigarette cards, Double Meaning circa 1898 W.5, playing card inset, complete set of 52
SOLD FOR £90
Wills cigarette cards, Double Meaning circa 1898 W.5, complete set of 50, no inset playing card
SOLD FOR £95
Wills and BAT cigarette cards, Soldiers of The World circa 1895 to 1897 W.12, incomplete set of 43, all LD back, a similar set of 10 with inset playing cards, together with 10 BAT Soldiers of The World (tobacco leaf back, total 63)
SOLD FOR £820
Wills cigarette cards, Beauties, circa 1897 W.3-E, complete set of 52, "no Wills" on front with playing card inset and scroll brown back (plus additional 10 pictures - total 62)
SOLD FOR £70
Wills cigarette cards, Actresses, grey scroll back with playing card inset, circa 1897 W.3D, incomplete set 20/52 (21 duplicate Miss Bloomfield)
SOLD FOR £420
Wills cigarette cards, Actresses, grey scroll back, no playing card inset, circa 1897 W.3/D, complete set of 53 (with duplicate Miss Harold)
SOLD FOR £540
Wills cigarette cards, Actresses, brown scroll back with playing card inset, circa 1898 W.3/C, complete set of 52
SOLD FOR £100
A Victorian silver cigarette case with engraved floral decoration Birmingham 1896, together with a Victorian 2 section rectangular silver box London 1900 7cm containing 2 miniature sets of playing cards
SOLD FOR £120
An impressive Nao group of 5 boys playing cards on a bench 33cm
SOLD FOR £55
A collection of Wills and Players cigarette cards including film stars, Reign of George V, radio celebrities, railways and locomotives, dogs, products of the world, animals, Dickens characters, cricketers, hints on playing football, etc
SOLD FOR £320
A Victorian games compendium comprising Staunton pattern chess set, drafts, 28 bone dominoes, cribbage board, 5 (ex 6) bone dice, 3 bone markers, 6 lead figures of race horses, a rectangular metal pond, ditto gate and rail, 8 dice numbered figurally 1-6, 1 marked with gavel and 1 marked with a bell, 5 playing cards - 2 marked bell, 1 marked bell in, 1 marked horse, 1 marked gavel and 1 plain, a turned wooden die shaker, printed guide to compendium (stuck with sellotape), a folding chess, backgammon and steeplechase board (also repaired with sellotape), contained in a pine box 17cm h x 32cm w x 21cm d
SOLD FOR £60
A Staffordshire Elizabethan pattern coffee set comprising 8 coffee cups, 8 saucers and 4 plates decorated with playing cards
SOLD FOR £55
An Art Deco inlaid mahogany table top cigarette dispenser with playing cards, cigarettes and matchings 14cm h x 17cm w x 13cm d
SOLD FOR £190
A set of Georgian paper playing cards with plain backs, a set of Cheery Families cards with part cardboard case (damaged), set of Happy Family cards, a set of 10 1920's snap cards boxed, a set of Stephenson promotional floor polish advertising playing cards together with a brass and string bowls measure
SOLD FOR £15800
Of Royal Interest, Drew & Sons, an Edwardian coromandel and chrome mounted games compendium, the hinged lid inlaid Edward VII Royal Cypher and with countersunk handles 26cm h x 42cm w, the interior fitted a coromandel and inlaid ivory chess/backgammon board with chrome hinges. The upper tray fitted a red and white carved ivory chess set, together with a red and white carved ivory domino set, 4 circular score indicators, 12 red ivory peg markers all contained within a satinwood tray and also together with 5 later associated packs of De La Rue playing cards. The satinwood lift out trays fitted 2 large bezique markers (1f), 2 small associated bezique markers the base marked The Camden Tom Thumb Whist Marker and 4 later associated De La Rue packs of playing cards. The drawer fitted 7 sections (1 receptacle vacant) containing pair of ivory dice shakers, 5 carved ivory dice, 43 blue circular composition counters (1 counter f), 45 ditto purple, 42 ditto white and 2 associated sets of playing cards. The divided base section fitted a circular satinwood roulette wheel with 3 metal figures of horses and jockeys, 6 later plastic figures of horses, 28 ivory jack straws. The fall front fitted a pair of ivory and chrome cribbage boards with 2 ivory score markers (both with loose hands).
SOLD FOR £130
An unusual 19th Century stoneware cup, the moulded decoration with dressed monkeys playing cards, drinking and smoking, the 3 handles in the form of hounds 6"
SOLD FOR £210
19th Century oil painting on board, an interior fete gallant scene with figures in the background playing cards, unsigned 27" x 32"