Antique Playing Cards

Illustrating a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. In the backdrop are playing cards, a bird cage, birds, a fishbowl, flowers and several international flags.

Text is in Middle High German Illustration was made by one of the Augsburg Woodcutter's Guild, which held a monopoly of woodcut illustrations of playing cards and religious icons. An...

The hinged tops opens to reveal the original claret baize lined interior for playing cards. As you swivel the top into position a compartment for storing your cards, pens and paper i...

Above is the intricately detailed top featuring three inlaid panels, with the first being of three men playing cards adjacent their hunter gear and a village in the distance.

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The method he employed for making sugar patterns was identical to that which he used to make his sand pictures; that is the sugar, or sand, was shaken through a cut and pleated playi...

Inside the drawer are six packs of unopened Asprey playing cards, each still preserved within their original packaging, positioned before a cribbage board veneered to match the Amboy...

Like the entire plate, including the playing cards and the frame made of different coloured pieces of marble, this is the Scagliola technique, which is rarely used today.

Lifting the felted wood bottom reveals one side is a false floor that lifts access the secret hiding space (shown with a silver bar to show scale / silver bar not included) A conc...

Pressler illustrations can also be found on a wide variety of other items, including sheet music, trade cards, book frontispieces and covers, blotters, playing cards, candy boxes, ji...

The apron houses a single central drawer, fitted with an ornate brass pull, offering convenient storage for playing cards, napkins, or small accessories. Classic Louis XVI–style tape...

Once you swivel the top, it opens to a flat green felt surface for playing cards. It has a rosewood and satinwood parquetry chessboard and cribbage board that pulls out in the front ...

It is centred by an oval roundel with a decorative and highly unusual still-life tableau of playing cards and dice. The distinctive form of the decorative marquetry inlay and the...

It is of course a centre or occasional table, it can be used for playing cards in a Library or in a hall with sculptures etc, if you were feeling very grand you could use it as a fou...

While his paintings of wild animals were much praised by the critics, his most financially successful works were his portraits of dogs, reproduced on a range of items including tobac...

Supposedly the two gentlemen sitting and playing cards have been identified as Lord Courtenay (left) and Thomas Rowlandson, the great caricaturist (right).

The cup ace table has the form of support that recalls the seed of playing cards. The plan is rectangular, usually consisting of a single axis.

Large pieces of broken rock are scattered about, with one slab being used as a seat/table for two shepherds playing cards. Several birds fly in the blue sky, with the setting sun giv...

The scene is divided into two rooms, with seven patrons (mostly men) gathered around a barrel table in front of a very large fireplace. Two of the men are playing cards and there are...

Families gathered round this hearth to eat, drink, smoke, play cards, sleep, and mark the passage of Yalda.

We have included some dice and a pack of playing cards; inside of the lid lined with red satin.

It was indeed so popular that these specific types of small, occasional, lamp type tables with folding tops were christened specifically as “patience tables” made with the intention ...

Bellery-Desfontaines was an important artist of his epoch, and he took part in numerous events like Bal des Quat'z'Arts or Bal de l'Internat; he also made lots of illustrations such ...

During World War II, they were a favorite with GIs, and his picture adorned innumerable footlockers, ships and planes as well as playing cards and calendars. An excellent biograph...

The top opens to reveal a baize lined interior for playing cards, you then swivel the top to reveal the backgammon table.

The hinged top opens to reveal a blue baize lined interior for playing cards framed with exquisite floral marquetry decoration.

The table is a super decorative console, which unfolds to reveal a Chessboard and Cards playing surface, one more leaf that unfolds and you have what looks like a cross pair of old g...

If features a secret compartment on the right side which can be opened by pulling the right hand side divider, ideal for playing cards and dice. There is no mistaking its unique ...

Play a hand of cards or a round of chess upon the same graceful, exquisite table.

Text is in Early Middle High German Illustration was made by one of the Augsburg Woodcutter's Guild, which held a monopoly of woodcut illustrations of playing cards and religious ico...

While Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland begins outside on a warm summer day, uses changes in size as a plot device, and the imagery of playing cards, Through the Looking-Glass begins ...

After inserting a coin, a handle was depressed or cranked to set into motion a roulette wheel, playing cards or dice. When the machine stopped, the patron read his "winnings" on the ...

Illustration was made by one of the Augsburg Woodcutter's Guild, which held a monopoly of woodcut illustrations of playing cards and religious icons. An Abbot of Augsburg mediated a ...

To the left, a puppet can be seen hanging out of a dressing trunk, whilst a scabbard and pipe lie next to some playing cards on the floor. Further research has revealed that the pain...

The cedar lined fitted tray above the decanters was used as a humidor for cigars, but is equally useful to keep the packs of playing cards, which are included. It is a truly decorat...

The shaped hinged top opens to reveal a fabulous green baize lined gaming interior for playing cards, above a frieze fitted with a drawer and decorated by a beautiful classical urn.

In representations such as this, educational themes can also be identified: soldiers depicted at rest often engage in pastimes associated with moral weakness, such as playing cards, ...

It contains two packs of playing cards, dice, a set of 5 poker dice and a silver plate cribbage board with score markers.

Perhaps most famously, Croegaert gained notoriety as a pioneer of the so-called "cardinal  paintings"—humorous, finely rendered scenes featuring Roman Catholic cardinals in sumptuous...

The base has two drawers containing playing cards, dice, two antique Japanese whist counters with circular gaming counters and a brass mounted cribbage board with twelve markers.

There are two drawers in the base,  revealing playing cards, a cribbage board with score markers, and a pair of dice.

While Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland begins outside on a warm summer day, uses changes in size as a plot device, and the imagery of playing cards, Through the Looking-Glass begins ...

The cracked pocket watch becomes a symbol of the fleeting quality of time, a reference to the traditional vanitas still lifes of the Dutch and Flemish Baroque masters. The playing ca...

There is a secret compartment in the base, which can be opened by pressing the secret button in front of the central decanter, revealing two packs of playing cards, a cribbage board ...

Fine quality English Victorian walnut card table with elegant fold-over action The shaped top opening to reveal a green baize playing surface, ideal for cards or games Circa Date 188...

The removable rectangular top lifts off to reveal a hinged baize playing surface for cards. The playing surface slides open to reveal a roulette wheel and the roulette playing surfac...

Outstanding quality antique Victorian oak decanter and games box, having an outstanding quality oak case with ornate metal mounts and two carrying handles to the sides, having a lift...

Quality Victorian card table in burr walnut We date this piece to circa 1880 Table opens out to reveal green beize lined playing surface for cards or board games Table can also serve...

The shaped and impeccably inlaid top is hinged and will unfold to double in size and reveal a Kelly green playing surface, ideal for cards, dominoes and other games.

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The oak base has a drawer for cards and playing pieces, all raised on a square section support with four splayed legs and the original brass castors.

When the time comes to play a game of cards, the tabletop easily revolves and unfolds to reveal a felt-lined surface.

Quality Victorian card table in burr walnut We date this piece to circa 1880 Table opens out to reveal green beize lined playing surface for cards or board games Table can also serve...

It has a useful drawer to hold your playing and score cards etc, and stands on elegant cabriole tapering  legs that terminate in ormolu sabots.

Found at the center of social activity, square tables such as this were used on a daily basis for dining, serving tea, or playing games such as cards or mahjong. Additional Dimensi...

Known as assiettes parlantes or talking plates, this set is based on the face cards of a playing deck. A cream colored earthenware body with blue borders, each plate show two face ca...

Also of course they are one of the most elegant solutions possible to find for a whole host of spaces around the home even if one doesn't intend to play any cards or open them out at...