Monthly Archives: March 2017

I suspect that Chas. Goodall & Son did not issue any patience sets until at least 1900, when the first edition of Professor Hoffmann’s Patience Games was published. (See illustration below.) However, I am not aware of any Goodall patience-set issued that … Continue reading →

I discussed my earliest Goodall set (a two-pack Bezique set) in an earlier post, in 2010. The scans for that post were really quite poor.  I have a different scanner now, which easily produces much better scans than the earlier … Continue reading →

How did Frederic Jessel arrange his bibliography? It’s a question I have not really thought much about in the past, and I suppose it is not a question of prime importance, since the book does have a certain flow to it … Continue reading →

What is the best way to organize a bibliography of card-game booklets? This is just a rhetorical question, and I don’t want to impose on anyone by asking for any real answers, but I’ll set forth a few of my … Continue reading →

Below is a scan showing the three formats of The Royal Game of Bezique as published by Charles Goodall & Son. The largest is a rather interesting early printing. This is apparently a two-toned variation of the large-format version listed in … Continue reading →

On page 50 of Mike Goodall’s year-2000 book Charles Goodall & Son: The Family and the Firm 1820-1922 is a little image of Goodall’s “Marlborough” cabinet (from a catalog or advertisement). It is designated as “The ‘Marlborough’ and ‘Blenheim,’” which … Continue reading →

After working on some of those recent posts, I got to thinking about the Chas. Goodall & Son designs for the Ace of Spaces, which (at least the main one discussed here) was also used in other contexts. You can see images … Continue reading →

It recently dawned on me that this blog tends to assume a lot of knowledge on the part of visitors, maybe to an unreasonable degree.  This that seem like common sense to experienced collectors may be completely opaque you newcomers. … Continue reading →

On occasion I like to conduct research regarding names found in inscriptions or on bookplates, or regarding similar references to people — in books in my collection, or perhaps in books that I see offered for sale on eBay. (I … Continue reading →