English playing cards. Iranian Popular Playing Cards, Thomas De La Rue, for the Iranian Monopoly, circa 1937, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker and title card, designed by V. Romanowski de Boncza, double-ended courts representing different Persian dynasties, aces with Persian smybols, lightly dusty, joker with tiny pale brown stain centrally, versos green with black double-ended design of warriors fighting, each card 90 x 62 mm, with original box bearing Iranian tax seal, together with: Optik pack, Thomas De La Rue & Co, circa 1905, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker, double-ended courts, spade and diamond suit signs adapted for players with defective sight, standard 1862 ace of spades, lightly dusty, few minor marks, versos red/pink ornamental pattern, each card 90 x 62 mm, with original 2-part box, plus: Q Playing Cards, De La Rue, for W. & G. Baird, 1936, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker and score card, double-ended courts showing only the heads, plain aces, indices with values as words rather than numbers, 10 of diamonds with tiny mark centrally, versos blue with central white letter Q, each card 88 x 58 mm, with original box, with 19 other De La Rue 20th century packs, including: Lyons Corner House pack, circa 1935; Film Star pack, 1933; Culbertson's Own Self-Teaching Playing Cards, circa 1935; Onoto pack, with verso design of parrot on trellis with berried tree by Sir Edward J. Poynter; Baron's Filter Tipped pack; and others, many with original box, including one 1932 Centenary facsimile of the second De La Rue deck in unopened tax wrapper with original box, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 15 display boards, most encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cm and similar (Quantity: 22) Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. First item: Cary collection, ENG 132 (de luxe edition); Fournier, British 420. Third item: Berry, The Waddington Playing-Card Collection, [W293]; EPCS newsletter no.18 (Nov. 1987) pp.2-3; Fournier, British 440.
English playing cards. Iranian Popular Playing Cards, Thomas De La Rue, for the Iranian Monopoly, circa 1937, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker and title card, designed by V. Romanowski de Boncza, double-ended courts representing different Persian dynasties, aces with Persian smybols, lightly dusty, joker with tiny pale brown stain centrally, versos green with black double-ended design of warriors fighting, each card 90 x 62 mm, with original box bearing Iranian tax seal, together with: Optik pack, Thomas De La Rue & Co, circa 1905, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker, double-ended courts, spade and diamond suit signs adapted for players with defective sight, standard 1862 ace of spades, lightly dusty, few minor marks, versos red/pink ornamental pattern, each card 90 x 62 mm, with original 2-part box, plus: Q Playing Cards, De La Rue, for W. & G. Baird, 1936, a complete deck of 52 offset playing cards (French suits), plus joker and score card, double-ended courts showing only the heads, plain aces, indices with values as words rather than numbers, 10 of diamonds with tiny mark centrally, versos blue with central white letter Q, each card 88 x 58 mm, with original box, with 19 other De La Rue 20th century packs, including: Lyons Corner House pack, circa 1935; Film Star pack, 1933; Culbertson's Own Self-Teaching Playing Cards, circa 1935; Onoto pack, with verso design of parrot on trellis with berried tree by Sir Edward J. Poynter; Baron's Filter Tipped pack; and others, many with original box, including one 1932 Centenary facsimile of the second De La Rue deck in unopened tax wrapper with original box, a quantity of cards from each deck mounted with photo corners onto 15 display boards, most encapsulated in clear plastic (none examined out of boards), the remainder in plastic bags, the boards 54.5 x 40.5 cm and similar (Quantity: 22) Provenance: Collection of Dudley Ollis. First item: Cary collection, ENG 132 (de luxe edition); Fournier, British 420. Third item: Berry, The Waddington Playing-Card Collection, [W293]; EPCS newsletter no.18 (Nov. 1987) pp.2-3; Fournier, British 440.
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