Friday, December 28, 2012

Crazy Faces

Earlier this month I posted the vintage Dandy Candy card game set (there's a few more vintage card games in the AEET archive too if you look around a little), and here's another one with super fun, colorful illustrations, released by E. E. Fairchild Corp, Rochester, N.Y. sometime in the 50's or 60's. I really love the indian and the drunken clown, but nothing beats that wacky witch and her awesome shrieking cat! I also included directions for the 4 separate games at the very bottom. GO CRAZY!!










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15 comments:

  1. Crafty CDecember 28, 2012

    wow - these are so great. i totally want to make a set of them (doll house size or smaller!)!

    i think i like the jack-o-lantern guy the best -but i'm pretty partial to them in general. and the pirate guy is great - esp since he looks like a cab driver who just put on a halloween costume or something.

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  2. Mr. KarswellDecember 28, 2012

    Aye matey, yee passenger fare to Crafty Isle be $5,000 in haunted gold dubloons!

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  3. Crafty CDecember 28, 2012

    ha! forget it buddy! i'll walk.

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  4. Mr. KarswellDecember 28, 2012

    Argh!

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  5. Crafty CDecember 28, 2012

    ye gots to lower ye prices matey! i'll give you one haunted gold dubloon and no more! wait, how did i wind up with a pirate accent?

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  6. Mr. KarswellDecember 28, 2012

    Hardy har, tis be ye land lubbered ye days as a Romanian-Canadian with just a splash of Seven Seasian!

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  7. Crafty CDecember 28, 2012

    me thinks ye braine fell out and sank to the bottome o' the seven seas.

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  8. Mr. KarswellDecember 28, 2012

    It's a'sleepin' with the fishes for me scurvy brain now, is it then? I'll be sure to say hi to Davey Jones for ye...

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  9. KL from NYCDecember 29, 2012

    OK, how many of each of these make a full deck. I didn't bother to read all four sets of instructions this time and try to make a guess (I figured it would be easier to ask).

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  10. Mr. KarswellDecember 29, 2012

    Yep, 4 each for this set too

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  11. KL from NYCDecember 29, 2012

    Thank you for both answers.

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  12. Mr. KarswellDecember 29, 2012

    My pleasure! You may also want to check my archive for MIXIES and CRAZY EIGHTS, both of those are great too.

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  13. TwoHeadedBoyDecember 30, 2012

    I've seen that caterpillar somewhere in the past, now I know where! They're all great, but ESPECIALLY the caterpillar.

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  14. Mr. KarswellDecember 30, 2012

    I'm glad to see someone give that bug some love-- he's too weird and wonderful to ignore!

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  15. Mr. CavinDecember 30, 2012

    I kinda like the moon, too.

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