Civil War Playing Cards with Case / SOLD

Civil War Playing Cards with Case - Inventory Number:  CAM 528 / SOLD

Original complete set of playing cards contained in a two-piece pasteboard box with brass score keepers.  The cords are all present with rounding to corners and soiling from camp use. The Goodall business was first established in Soho in 1820, printing playing cards and message cards. The earliest cards were traditional in appearance. In 1826 increasing business and a growing family necessitated a move to larger premises, and then again, during the 1830s, the firm expanded. The main factory lay behind the terrace in a building which had formerly been a gun factory and was later used to produce steam engines. At around this time Goodall started experimenting with 'modernized' and other court card designs which gradually evolved into those we are familiar with today.

Inventory Number:  CAM 528 / SOLD