[GandalfPC] My Collection

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I like these too. Makes me wonder if a pub or tobacco shop somewhere in the UK still has a "trade" jar on a shelf somewhere.
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The Lenormand are really beautiful G.
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Was trying to track down the year - ebay listing came to the rescue - looks to be 1897 :)

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I woke up early today and couldn't sleep so I decided to scroll through your collection and it was a real treat! Thanks to you, I've added the Murakami deck (plus the uno deck 😮‍💨) and the Junaida one to the wishlist. My poor wallet gets no reprieve from this hobby 😂
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Rabbit hole entered.


Let’s see how deep it goes…


- [x] 1897 Wills Beauties Playing Cards. 49 of 52 - missing: AH, 9H, 8S
- [x] 1911 Wills Celebrated Ships
- [x] 1913 Wills First Aid
- [x] 1917 Frys Nursery Rhymes [MV]
- [x] 1926 Carreras - Lenormand (wide version)
- [x] 1926 Carreras - Lenormand - (narrow version)
- [x] 1927 Wills - Household Hints
- [x] 1929 Carreras - Playing Cards & Dominoes
- [x] 1936 Churchman - The Queen Mary
- [x] 1936 Wills - Household Hints
- [x] 1938 Wills - Garden Hints
- [x] 1939 Players - Animals of the Countryside
- [x] 1956 Brooke Bond - Out Into Space (Issued With) [HV]
- [x] 1958 Brooke Bond - Out Into Space (Issued In) [MV]
- [x] 1964 Barratt - Yogi Bear and Friends Hanna-Barbera
- [x] 1968 Brooke Bond - History of the Motor Car
- [x] 1973 Brooke Bond - History of the Aviation


some pics, looking like I’ll be getting enough break from work shortly to start to play picture catch up…

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Deeper still…

- [x] 1900 Wills - Wild Animals of the World - P/C inset

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G, get out of this hole - you are already approaching Repetti Discontinuity in the playing cards hole! :o
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Honeybee wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:39 pm G, get out of this hole - you are already approaching Repetti Discontinuity in the playing cards hole! :o

Rabbiti Discontinuity
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Familiar territory, I believe.
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1961 Sweetule - Natural History Playing Cards

Sweetule issued about 40 sets of trade/insert cards between 1954 and 1963. This was the only one to include playing-card symbols…

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and Wall’s Ice Cream, Hulk 1979, picked up the pair to help with the 15 GBP shipping, both sets cheap enough to make that matter, which is nice…

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G, I am worried that it isn't so much 'rabbit hole entered' as ......
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I’m sure I’ll live longer if I waste it on old paper than if I spend it on fast living ;)
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