The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Australian First World War recruitment poster in the form of an advertisement for a Patriotic pack of playing cards. The text and images are integrated with the title text printed in curved red banners across the top and bottom. In the centre are three playing cards. Two upper centre left and right are decorated with union jack flags representing ' the Aces' . Another card positioned lower centre is the ' Joker' of the pack and features a depiction of an Australian Soldier in a slouch hat holding the Australian flag. Behind him are flags from other Commonwealth countries. Printed beneath him is the following quote 'Children of Britain men of choice let this your power be still your pride first masters of yourselves and then masters of whom you will beside'.
A pack of playing cards given to Ted Buerckner after being picked up by the USS Sealion in September 1944, following the sinking of the Rakuyo Maru on which he was being transported to Japan. The pla
Twenty three hand drawn playing cards made from the backs of Three Castles cigarette packets. The cards are finely marked in black ink, pencil and coloured pencil and comprise a Joker, four Jacks, fou
Complete set of regular playing cards produced by the New York Consolidated Card Company in the United States. The set is housed in a cardboard box with the top flap missing. The box has been repaire
Boxed pack of Huddart Parker Line playing cards. On the back of each card is an image of ship MV Wanganella with the words, 'M.V. WANGANELLA HUDDART PARKER LINE'. There are 52 playing cards and two jo
Packet of Qantas playing cards consisting of the four suits, three jokers and a blank card printed with the maker’s name ‘Ferd. Piatnik and Sons Vienna’. Printed on the ace of spades is ‘MADE IN AUSTR
Rectangular card box, with lid, containing three sets of playing cards. A typed paper label has been pasted on the lid and reads 'Aircraft Recognition Silhouette cards'. The underside of the lower box
