Union Fait La Force, Brussels, 1945, fifty-three playing cards, comprising Hitler joker and four suits of thirteen, each with pictorial ace, pip cards 2-10, and three double-ended court cards, French suits, lightly toned, blue patterned backs, rounded corners (one or two a little creased), 87 x 58mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), eighteen cards mounted together with photo corners (aces, courts, joker, and one showing back), framed and glazed, remainder contained in original cardboard box (flap detached) Deck of playing cards commemorating the Second World War, with joker showing Hitler on the receiving end of a bomb. The suits represent England, United States, France and Russia. The aces depict appropriate landmarks, and the kings show Churchill, Roosevelt, De Gaulle and Stalin. (1)
Union Fait La Force, Brussels, 1945, fifty-three playing cards, comprising Hitler joker and four suits of thirteen, each with pictorial ace, pip cards 2-10, and three double-ended court cards, French suits, lightly toned, blue patterned backs, rounded corners (one or two a little creased), 87 x 58mm (3.5 x 2.25ins), eighteen cards mounted together with photo corners (aces, courts, joker, and one showing back), framed and glazed, remainder contained in original cardboard box (flap detached) Deck of playing cards commemorating the Second World War, with joker showing Hitler on the receiving end of a bomb. The suits represent England, United States, France and Russia. The aces depict appropriate landmarks, and the kings show Churchill, Roosevelt, De Gaulle and Stalin. (1)
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