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Forces Favourites Playing Cards

A fully illustrated pack of playing cards featuring pin-ups from the 1940s.

If you went in to any officer's mess during the Second World War, you would probably have found one or more of David Wright's glamour pin-ups, which first appeared in The Sketch magazine on the first of January 1941, and featured regularly throughout the War. D

David Wright, an outstanding erotic artist of the day, died tragically at the young age of 55 in 1967. At the time his illustrations were considered quite risque.

4 indices, one way backs, larger than poker.
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Forces Favourites Playing Cards
Price:
£ 7.00
Product Code:
GT00027
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In Stock