Series II. British Playing Cards

Series II. dates from 1675 to 1887. The series includes 24 card games, of which many are geographical and educational card decks.

"The Pretended Popish Plot" deck was issued in 1679 to rebut the fears of British citizens that a Catholic conspiracy was attempting to unseat Charles II. "Counties of England and Wales" is a very rare deck, few other complete packs are known. "Game of General Knowledge" includes 5 small decks with different genres of factual questions on each.

This series also contains "Click tablets," wooden boards with printed cards pasted on to the board's face. The board tablets are attached with ribbon and can move in a variety of ways.

Cards are ordered by date and thereunder alphabetically by name or subject. Cards with known dates always come before those with circa dates.