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Posted 13 months, 12 days ago

Sherry
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Picked up these cards at a garage sale on the weekend. I love the pattern and am thinking 1950s? I have an untrained eye but that is my guess.

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1. AR8Jason, 13 months, 10 days ago
   Look at the Ace of Spades for the Maker.
2. AR8Jason, 13 months, 10 days ago
   1950s or 1960s is my guess. The most important cards in playing cards are the Ace of Spades and the Jokers as far as identifiers.
3. Sherry, 13 months, 3 days ago
   Wow! Learn something new every day. Ace of Spades has 'Thomas De La Rue & Company Limited, London'.
4. AR8Jason, 13 months, 2 days ago
   PRIMARY TO NOTE NAME CHANGE ... indicates these are 1958 or before.
   
   FROM WIKI ...
   The Company was founded by Thomas de la Rue who moved to London in 1821 and set up in business as a stationer and printer. In 1831 his business secured a Royal Warrant to produce playing cards, in 1855 it started printing postage stamps and in 1860 it began printing banknotes. In 1896, the family partnership was converted to a private company.
   
   In 1921, the de la Rue family sold their interests. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1947. The Company, then called Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited, changed its name in 1958 to The De La Rue Company Limited. A takeover bid for De La Rue was made by the Rank Organisation plc in 1968 but this was rejected by the Monopolies commission as being against the public interest. In 1991 the company’s name was changed again - this time to De La Rue plc.
   
   In 1997 De La Rue acquired Harrison and Sons, the stamp and banknote printers, based in High Wycombe. Harrisons had made significant inroads into De La Rue's banknote printing operations.
   
   In 2003 the Company acquired the Debden based banknote printing operations of the Bank of England.[4]
   The Debden Security Printing Ltd printing facility, owned by De La Rue, which prints Bank of England banknotes.
   
   The company was recognized by Hermann Simon as a role model for other small to medium sized business in his book Hidden Champions.

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